New Mill

New MillNew MillChrist Church, New MillNew Mill is a village about 5 miles south of Huddersfield (6 miles by road) and about 1.5 miles east-north-east of Holmfirth (2.5 miles by road).

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 While high quality cloth manufacturing is still based in the village, many of the old mill buildings have been replaced by housing developments.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 (formerly Kirkroyds Infant School) is in Kirkroyds Lane, New Mill.

New Mill Schools website

New Mill Junior School (formerly Wooldale Junior School) is in Royds Avenue, New Mill.

New Mill Schools website

Christ Church New Mill is at Sude Hill.

Christ Church New Mill website

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

Holmfirth Bus station - Wooldale Town End Road, Wooldale Road, Little Lane, Kirkroyds Lane, Royds Avenue, Greenhill Bank Road - New Mill - Jackson Bridge - Hepworth - Scholes Moor - Hade Edge - Dunford Road - Holmfirth Bus station

Timetable at

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Stotts Coach Travel

77 Monday only (one journey each way)

Holmfirth - Wooldale - New Mill - Shepley Lane Head - Birds Edge - High Flatts - Ingbirchworth - Oxspring - Thurgoland - Wortley - Chapeltown Penistone Line - Meadowhall Interchange Penistone Line
(then 77A journey to Sheffield)

Timetable (.pdf format) at

Travel South Yorkshire Timetables at

South Pennine Community Transport

90 Monday to Saturday (4 journeys each way Mon-Fri, 1 on Saturday)

Holmfirth - Wooldale - New Mill - Shepley Lane Head - Upper Cumberworth - Denby Dale - Lower Denby - Cawthorne - Barugh Green - Barnsley Interchange Penistone Line

No longer routed via Upper Denby, Ingbirchworth, Penistone and Hoylandswaine from July 20, 2025

Timetable at

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South Pennine Community Transport

91 Thursday and Saturday daytime (4 journeys each way)

91 at HolmfirthHolmfirth Bus station - Wooldale New Mill Road - New Mill - The Sovereign crossroads - Upper Cumberworth - Denby Dale - Lower Denby - Upper Denby - Ingbirchworth - Penistone

Previously withdrawn 350 service reinstated as service 91 from July 20, 2025

Timetable at

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South Pennine Community Transport

314

314 at HolmeHuddersfield Bus station - Lockwood - Berry Brow Parkgate - Honley Bridge - Brockholes - New Mill - Wooldale New Mill Road - Holmfirth Bus station - Hinchliffe Mill Woodhead Road - Holmbridge - Holme

Timetable at

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First Bus

316

Huddersfield Bus station - Lockwood - Berry Brow Parkgate - Honley Bridge - Brockholes - New Mill - Holmfirth Road - Wooldale New Mill Road - Holmfirth Bus station - Parkhead

Timetable at

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First Bus

X1 Holmfirth Explorer 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 - Denby Dale - Lower Cumberworth - Skelmanthorpe - Scissett - Clayton West Chapel Hill, Church Lane, High Street, The Green* , Scott Hill, Long Lane - Calder Grove - Wakefield

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

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Team Pennine

via Royds Avenue:

H1 Monday - Saturday daytime

Holmfirth Bus station - Cinderhills - Scholes - New Mill at Royds Avenue - Wooldale Kirkroyds Lane, Lower Town End Road, Town End Road - Station Road - Holmfirth Bus station

Timetable at

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Stotts Coach Travel

H2 Monday - Saturday daytime

Holmfirth Bus station - Cinderhills - Cliffe - Wooldale Cliff Road, Town End Road, Lower Town End Road, Kirkroyds Lane- New Mill at Royds Avenue - Scholes - Cinderhills - Holmfirth Bus station

Timetable at

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Stotts Coach Travel

Road travel

New Mill is at the staggered crossroad junction of the:
A616 which runs from Huddersfield to the M1(J35A), north of Sheffield, and
A635 Manchester - Stalybridge - Greenfield - Holmfirth - Barnsley - Doncaster road.

Other places near New Mill: Hepworth Jackson Bridge Scholes Thongsbridge Wooldale

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