Denby Dale
The village also lends its name to the civil parish covering several surrounding villages and hamlets and run as Denby Dale Parish Council, although its office is in the village of
The Denby Dale Viaduct spanning the valley of the River Dearne is the most distinctive feature of the village, which is famous for a succession of world-beating giant meat and potato pies.
The village's pie-making tradition has been continued since 1788. The dish from a pie made on September 5, 1964, can be found outside the Denby Dale Pie Hall, a village hall in Wakefield Road, built using the proceeds of a 6½ ton pie. The previous pie had celebrated the Queen's Coronation in 1953 and before that, in 1928, the people of Denby Dale rallied to the support of Huddersfield Royal Infirmary with a pie to support medical services at the hospital.
The biggest meat and potato pie to be paraded through Denby Dale was the 12 tonne Millennium Pie in 2000. Since then, in 2012, the famous pie made in 1887 for the Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee was recreated for the Channel 5 TV programme The Great Northern Cookbook. This time it was properly cooked, unlike the rancid original which had to be buried in the woods.
Denby Dale still shows it can cater for just about anything as it offers villagers, and those passing through, a slice of everything they might need as the shopping section below reveals.
The village's Anglican church, Holy Trinity, was built in the late 1930s, its foundation stone being laid in 1938. The church can be found at the end of Norman Road.
Denby Dale Industrial Estate is off Wakefield Road, near to the railway viaduct, and Hartcliffe Mills lay just beyond the viaduct from the village.
Around Denby Dale
Most of the village shops are stretched along one side of Wakefield Road with on-street parking alongside them, but head down Norman Road and you will find a village shopping centre offering many otherwise hard to find services in the old-world charm of the converted Springfield Mills.There's a wide range of shopping for such a small village with shops in Wakefield Road including a village store, butcher, baker, newsagent, greengrocer and deli. There's also a florist, gift shop, hobby shop, book shop, hair and beauty shops and clothes shops including children's wear, bridal wear and a charity shop.
Goods on offer at Springfield Mills are too numerous to mention here but include everything from fashions to flooring, hot tubs to equestrian goods.
More services can be found at the industrial estate, including a pet store and outlets for interiors, kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms and signs.
Denby Dale has a pharmacy in Wakefield Road next to the local surgery.
Denby Dale Post Office is in Wakefield Road.
The Denby Dale Community Project has created a new community building in Wakefield Road which incorporates a library run in partnership with Kirklees Library Services and a cafe and gift shop run by Kirkwood Hospice. Opening times can be found at the 
Denby Dale Community Library
The White Hart pub is in Wakefield Road in the centre of the village.Denby Dale Club or 'The Dale Club' is in Norman Road.
In addition to a fish and chip shop, there are takeaways offering chinese cuisine, tandoori, kebabs, burgers, pizzas and sandwiches.
Denby Dale Tea Room opens daily in the centre of the village and has a tea garden. The village also has a tandoori restaurant and food at the village pubs. Kirkwood Hospice operate a cafe at the community library.
Denby Dale Cricket Club was founded in 1891. It plays in the Drakes Huddersfield Cricket League and also caters for juniors from Under-9s upwards. It is based in Wakefield Road, Denby Dale. Denby Dale Cricket Club social media page.
Denby Dale Cricket Club
Denby Dale First and Nursery School is in Gilthwaites Lane. 
Denby Dale First and Nursery School
Holy Trinity Church is at Norman Road. Denby Dale Anglican Churches Holy Trinity ChurchDenby Dale Methodist Church is at Cumberworth Lane.
Denby Dale Methodist Church
Denby Dale has bridges over the River Dearne.
Local government
Civil parish council
Denby Dale is in the Denby and Cumberworth ward of the civil parish run by Denby Dale Parish Council. The council offices are in Denby Dale Parish Council website
Denby Dale Parish CouncilMetropolitan district council
Denby Dale is in the Denby Dale ward of the metropolitan district of Kirklees. Kirklees Council website
Kirklees Council
Travel
Denby Dale station
Huddersfield > Denby Dale ~ 30 minutes. Sheffield > Denby Dale ~ 48-54 minutes.
Northern - Denby Dale
Bus services
D1 Daily including evenings
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Metro Team Pennine D2 Monday - Saturday daytime
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Metro Team Pennine D3 Monday - Saturday daytime
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Metro Team Pennine X1 Holmfirth Explorer Daily (until mid-evening Mon-Sat, late afternoon on Sunday)
Schooltime journeys additionally visit Shelley College and/or Scissett Middle School.
*High Street and The Green at Clayton West served from mid-morning to mid-afternoon only.
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Metro Team Pennine 90 Monday to Saturday (3 journeys each way Mon-Fri, 4 each way Holmfirth-Penistone only on Saturday) NEW FROM SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
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Travel South Yorkshire South Pennine Community Transport 94 94A Monday to Friday (2 journeys each way at Denby Dale as extension of more frequent Cawthorne - Barnsley route)
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Travel South Yorkshire 99 Saturday only (3 journeys). Route includes circular section at Skelmanthorpe and Denby Dale.
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Travel South Yorkshire South Pennine Community Transport 350 Thursday and Saturday daytime WITHDRAWN
Road Travel
At the edge of Denby Dale the A636 Wakefield Road continues from the A635 Barnsley Road from Holmfirth and passes through the centre of the village. The A635 Barnsley Road towards Penistone branches off and skirts the edge of Denby Dale at the opposite side of the River Dearne.
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