Clayton West
Farming, textiles and coal mining were all important to the growth of Clayton West, but Park Mill Colliery in the village closed in 1989.
The village now has a diverse range of businesses in small business parks with industries ranging from communications to coffee supply, sheet metal and precision engineering to the UK base of a US aerospace servicing company.
The village had a station providing a passenger terminus at the end of a branch from the Huddersfield-Penistone-Sheffield line. The branch survived the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, but was eventually closed to passengers in 1983. Today it leaves public transport users with a 56-minute bus journey to reach Huddersfield or a journey to Denby Dale to catch the train.
The route of the branch line, however, has since been reopened as a 15-inch gauge light railway. This was originally called the Kirklees Light Railway but has recently been rebranded at
Among historic buildings in the village is the former Baptist chapel, in High Street, which was built in 1840 with a Sunday School attached in 1860. The chapel closed in 1993.
Around Clayton West
Clayton West has a village store in High Street. There are also a number of hair and beauty salons in Clayton West, including one in the village's former bank. A garage and tyre outlet is based in Wakefield Road.
There is a fish and chip shop in High Street.
The Junction Inn is in Wakefield Road, near the junction with Long Lane.The Woodman Inn is in Wakefield Road.
The Shoulder of Mutton is in Church Lane.
Clayton West Darby and Joan Hall is in Church Lane.
Kaye's Millennium Green in Clayton West was given to the village by descendents of John Kaye, a village landowner who built a house known as The Park in the village in around 1830. It was established as the Kaye's Millennium Green in 2000 with the support of lottery funding and has since been maintained as a village park by a charitable trust of volunteers. 
Kaye's Academy (which was peviously called a First and Nursery School) is in Holmfield Road. 
Kaye's Academy
All Saints' Church is in Church Lane, Clayton West. The parish church of Clayton West with High Hoyland dates from 1875. The previous place of anglican worship for villagers being the closed All Hallows Church in High Hoyland, about a mile away. All Saints' ChurchThe United Reformed Church in Church Lane, Clayton West, was a chapel dating from 1866 but held its final service in 2019. The earliest chapel was built on the site in 1794.
Clayton West Methodist Church is in Wakefield Road.
Clayton West Methodist Church Places to visit
Whistlestop Valley
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Local government
Civil parish council
The village is in the civil parish run by Denby Dale Parish Council website
Denby Dale Parish CouncilMetropolitan district council
Clayton West is in the metropolitan district run by Kirklees Council. Kirklees Council website
Kirklees Council
Travel
Bus services
D1 Daily including evenings
Timetable at
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.
Timetable at
Metro Team Pennine 99 Saturday only (3 journeys). Route includes circular section at Skelmanthorpe and Denby Dale.
Timetable
Travel South Yorkshire South Pennine Community Transport
Road travel
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