Ainley Top
The village is a residential area with a pub, The Nags Head, but has become sandwiched between modern transport routes.
Even going back to Georgian times, what was then a small hamlet had begun to be reshaped by new road routes.
In the 1770s a new Huddersfield to Halifax turnpike road came from Huddersfield via the Grimescar Valley through Ainley Top and by the 1820s it became the merging point of a more direct turnpike branch from Huddersfield along the Halifax Road we know today. By the mid-19th century there was already a cutting and bridge arrangement by-passing the hamlet and taking the road over the edge of The Ainleys towards Elland.
The building of the motorway in the 1970s caused even more changes to the village, creating some of its more dominant features, including its large roundabout and curving tunnel beneath the motorway.
Newer development in the village has also reflected the needs of the road traveller, including hotels and a pub eatery. Beyond the roads, though, there are still areas of green agricultural land.
Around Ainley Top

Toby Carvery is in Brighouse Road, Ainley Top.


A travel hotel is situated next to The Nags Head.
Local government
Civil parish council
Ainley Top is in an unparished areaMetropolitan district councils
Ainley Top straddles the boundary of the metropolitan districts run by Kirklees Council and Calderdale Council.

Travel
Bus services
501 Daily, evening service (from late afternoon Sundays)
Timetable at


503 Daily until early evening (until late afternoon Sundays)
Operated by


343 Monday to Saturday, daytime
Timetable at


Road travel
The large Ainley Top roundabout provides a junction between the busy As there is no westbound exit from the
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