Blackmoorfoot

Blackmoorfoot Road, BlackmoorfootBlackmoorfoot ReservoirBlackmoorfoot is a hamlet 4 miles south-west of Huddersfield town centre, near the top of the moor above the Colne Valley.

Blackmoorfoot consists of a small group of houses and a pub on the old moorland route between Huddersfield and Marsden at a point where roads branch off to Linthwaite and Meltham.

It is also the location where between 1871 and 1876 the former Huddersfield Corporation built the largest of its reservoirs with its two embankments. While it seems to have a strange hilltop location, the engineers of the day ensured that it was fed with water from moors for miles around while being high enough to serve homes and business in the valleys and the hillside villages.

Around Blackmoorfoot

The Bulls Head pub is at Blackmoorfoot Road.

The pub serves food.

Slaithwaite is in the Colne Valley ward of Kirklees Council, the metropolitan district council.

Kirklees Council website

There is no civil parish council for this area, which prior to 1974 was in the Colne Valley Urban District.

Travel

Bus services

389 Mon - Fri (morning journey Meltham - Slaithwaite/Wilberlee*), Mon - Sat (afternoon journey Slaithwaite - Meltham - Blackmoorfoot)

Meltham Village turning circle - Helme - Blackmoorfoot -
Crosland Hill Blackmoorfoot Road - Crosland Moor Balmoral Avenue, Foster Avenue, Dryclough Road - Crosland Hill Blackmoorfoot Road, Felks Stile Road - Linthwaite Linthwaite Church, Causeway Side - Slaithwaite village centre, Hill Top - Wilberlee*

* Morning journey continues to Wilberlee on schooldays only.
Afternoon journeys call at Meltham Morrisons.

Timetable at

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Stotts Coach Travel

393 Monday to Saturday daytime

Huddersfield Bus station - Longroyd Bridge - Thornton Lodge Springdale Avenue, Yews Hill Road - Yews Hill - Crosland Moor - Crosland Hill Tom Lane, Crosland Hill Road, Blackmoorfoot Road (Sands House), Felks Stile Road - Linthwaite Linthwaite Church, Clough & Upper Clough - Blackmoorfoot

Timetable at

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Stotts Coach Travel

938 Monday to Saturday daytime (6 journeys each way Marsden - Blackmoorfoot, 5 on Saturday)

938 at MarsdenMarsden Marsden station Huddersfield line to Manchester, village centre, *, Meltham Road - Woods Mount - Meltham Road - Lingards Road - Slaithwaite Village centre, Holme Lane, Leisure Centre - Linthwaite Hoyle House Fold, Clough, Upper Clough - Blackmoorfoot
* Visits High Lea, Clough Lea, Wood Top, Carrs Street, Gate Head, Netherley Drive on demand
First weekday bus from Marsden omits Holme Lane at Slaithwaite.
Additional weekday journeys Marsden - Woods Mount.

Timetable at

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South Pennine Community Transport

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Other places near Blackmoorfoot: Crosland Hill Helme Holt Head Linthwaite South Crosland