Clayton West
Kaye's Millennium Green, Clayton West
The former Clayton West Baptist Chapel and Sunday School in High Street dates from 1840 and 1860
Clayton West
Map view
Clayton West is a village on the River Dearne, eight miles south east of Huddersfield (10 miles by road).
Farming, textiles and coal mining were all important to the growth of Clayton West, but Park Mill Colliery in the village closed in 1989.
Packhorse Bridge, River Dearne, Clayton West
Kirklees Light Railway
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. This closed in 1983, but the branch has since been reopened as a 15-inch gauge light railway,
KLR
the Kirklees Light Railway. The station can be accessed from Wakefield Road at the end of Park Mill Way.
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 Shoulder of Mutton is in Church Lane.
The Woodman Inn is in Wakefield Road.
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 Millennium Green
website
Kaye's First and Nursery School is in Holmfield Road.
Kaye's First and Nursery School
website
All Saints' Church, Clayton West
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' Church
website.
The United Reformed Church, Clayton West, is in Church Lane 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
website.
Clayton West is in the metropolitan district of Kirklees.
Kirklees Council
website
The village is in the civil parish run by Denby Dale Parish Council. The Denby Dale Parish Council offices are in
Skelmanthorpe
.
Denby Dale Parish Council
website
Travel
Bus services
Denby Darts D1
Huddersfield
Bus station
-
Aspley
-
Moldgreen
-
Dalton
Wakefield Road
-
Waterloo
-
Fenay Bridge
Penistone Road
-
Highburton
-
Kirkburton
Turnshaw Road, George Street
-
Shelley
Huddersfield Road
-
Skelmanthorpe
-
Scissett
-
Clayton West
Chapel Hill
-
Scissett
-
Kitchenroyd
-
Denby Dale
Village centre and station
Penistone line
.
Timetable at
Metro
Timetables and information at
Team Pennine
Holmfirth Explorer X1
Daily (until mid-evening Mon-Sat, late afternoon on Sunday)
Holmfirth
-
Wooldale
New Mill Road
-
New Mill
-
Shepley
Marsh Lane, Lane Head Lane
-
Upper Cumberworth
-
Denby Dale station
Penistone Line
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Denby Dale
-
Lower Cumberworth
-
Skelmanthorpe
-
Scissett
-
Clayton West
Chapel Hill, Church Lane,
High Street, The Green*
, Scott Hill, Long Lane
- Calder Grove - Wakefield
No services via Kitchenroyd - see D1
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
Timetables and information at
Team Pennine
99
Saturday only, three journeys (four between Skelmanthorpe and Denby Dale)
Barnsley
Interchange
- Wilthorpe - Darton - Kexborough - High Hoyland -
Clayton West
-
Scissett
-
Skelmanthorpe
-
Lower Cumberworth
-
Upper Cumberworth
- Denby Dale
Station
Penistone line
-
Denby Dale
-
Scissett
-
Clayton West
- High Hoyland - Kexborough - Darton - Wilthorpe - Barnsley
Interchange
Timetable
(from July 16, 2022)
at
Travel South Yorkshire
. Timetables at
South Pennine Community Transport
Road travel
Clayton West is near the
A636
Wakefield Road about 2.5 miles north-east of
Denby Dale
.
Also in Huddersfield.guide
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Other places near Clayton West:
Emley
Denby Dale
Kitchenroyd
Scissett
Skelmanthorpe
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