New Mill
The village is in the valley of New Mill Dike about one mile before it flows into the River Holme.
Textile mills were once a very prominent feature of New Mill. While high quality cloth manufacturing is still based in the village, many of the old mill buildings have been replaced by housing developments.
The commercial heart of the village is on a realigned crossroads at the junction of the A635 Holmfirth Road and Penistone Road and the A616 Huddersfield Road and Sheffield Road.
New Mill Male Voice Choir was established in the village in 1991.
The village church, Christ Church New Mill, whose foundations were laid in 1829, stands on Sude Hill, high above the village centre.
The Co-op in New Mill was until 2017 a branch of the Wooldale Co-operative Society, which had operated as a local independent Co-op for more than 130 years.
New Mill is part of the civil parish run by Holme Valley Parish Council within the metropolitan district of Kirklees. Historically, New Mill had its own Urban District Council between 1895 and 1938, when it was merged into the Holmfirth urban district.
Around New Mill
New Mill has a selection of shops including a butcher and a Co-op.There are two pharmacies in the village, The Valley Pharmacy above the Co-op in Holmfirth Road and the neighbouring New Mill Pharmacy at the post office in Huddersfield Road.
New Mill sub-post office shares a shop with a pharmacy at Huddersfield Road in the centre of New Mill.
New Mill Club is in Sheffield Road, also near the village centre.
The village has takeaways offering Chinese meals, Asian food and pizzas and kebabs.
An Indo-Bangladesh restaurant, which also has a takeaway menu, has premises in Sheffield Road in the centre of New Mill which used to be The Duke of Leeds Hotel.
New Mill Infant School
New Mill Junior School
Christ Church New Mill is at Sude Hill.
Holmfirth Road bridges New Mill Dike in New Mill.
Local government
Civil parish council
New Mill is in the civil parish run by Holme Valley Parish Council. Holme Valley Parish Council website
Metropolitan district council
New Mill is in the Holme Valley South ward of Kirklees Council. Kirklees Council website
Travel
Bus services
via village centre:
H7 Monday-Friday, morning & early afternoon
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77 Monday only (one journey each way) NEW FROM SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
(then 77A journey to Sheffield)
Timetable
90 Monday to Saturday (3 journeys each way Mon-Fri, 4 each way Holmfirth-Penistone only on Saturday) NEW FROM SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Timetable
314
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316
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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
via Royds Avenue:
H1 Monday - Saturday daytime
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H2 Monday - Saturday daytime
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Road travel
New Mill is at the staggered crossroad junction of the:Other places near New Mill: