Thongsbridge

Miry Lane, ThongsbridgeFormer Church of St Andrew, ThongsbridgeThongsbridge is a village in the Holme Valley, about 4 miles south of Huddersfield (5.5 miles by road) and about 1 mile north-north-east of Holmfirth.

The village grew around a bridge over the river Holme and the mill built there.

The dyehouse and other buildings at the mill were swept away in the Holmfirth Flood of 1852, when the Bilberry Dam above Holmbridge burst. The mill buildings were subsequently replaced and have now been divided and converted to offer space for a wide range of businesses as the Thongsbridge Mills Business Centre. One of the newer buildings near the mill had been used as a carpet shop and is now the base of a vet's surgery.

Between 1850 and 1959, Thongsbridge had its own station and goods yard on the line to Holmfirth which branched from the Huddersfield-Penistone-Sheffield line near Brockholes. The line was closed in 1959 and dismantled in 1966 and there has now been a large amount of building on the former trackbed between Thongsbridge and Holmfirth.

Thongsbridge Cricket ClubIn recent years there has been a large expansion of housing in Thongsbridge, but its two tree-named pubs at opposite end of the village, The Royal Oak in Huddersfield Road and Sycamore in New Mill Road, were closed and redeveloped, its post office was moved down the road to Holmfirth Garage and its St Andrew Church was recently sold as a residential conversion opportunity.

The village has an active sporting life with a tennis club, cricket club and fitness centre.

Around Thongsbridge

Wooldale Co-op has a branch in Springwood Road.

Aldi has a supermarket at Huddersfield Road.

Holmfirth High School is in Heys Road, Thongsbridge.

Holmfirth High School website

Thongsbridge Tennis and Fitness Club is at Miry Lane, offering tennis and coaching from three years old upwards, and a fitness studio.

Thongsbridge Tennis and Fitness Club website

Thongsbridge Cricket Club is in Miry Lane. The club plays in the Huddersfield Drakes Cricket League and also has junior teams from under-9s upwards and a ladies team.

Thongsbridge Cricket Club web pages

Full Life Church has its base in Miry Lane in a unit next to the Thongsbridge Mills Business Centre.

Full Life Church website

Local government

Civil parish council

Thongsbridge is in the civil parish run by Holme Valley Parish Council.

Holme Valley Parish Council website

Metropolitan district council

Thongsbridge is in the Holme Valley South ward of Kirklees Council.

Kirklees Council website

Travel

Bus services

via Miry Lane and Springwood Road:

H6 Monday - Saturday daytime

Holmfirth Bus station - Wooldale Town End Road, Lower Town End Road, Pell Lane, Wooldale Road, Little Lane, Robert Lane - Thongsbridge Springwood Road, Woodlands Avenue, Luke Lane - Brockholes Oakes Avenue, Oakes Lane, New Mill Road - Thongsbridge Luke Lane, Miry Lane, Huddersfield Road - Holme Valley Memorial Hospital - Holmfirth Bus station

Timetable at

Metro Timetables (.pdf format) at

Stotts Coach Travel

308 Huddersfield - Holmfirth — most Monday to Saturday daytime journeys Huddersfield - Honley — evenings and Sundays and a few other journeys

Huddersfield Bus station - Primrose Hill Cross Lane - Newsome Lockwood Scar, Church Lane, Newsome Road South - Berry Brow Waingate, Parkgate, Hangingstone Road (outbound)* - Honley Bridge - Honley village centre, Bradshaw Road
- Oldfield - Netherthong - Holme Valley Memorial Hospital - Thongsbridge - Holmfirth Bus sta.

Evening and Sunday buses and a few Monday to Friday daytime buses operate only to/from Honley as 308 Honley.
308 operates via Cross Lane at Primrose Hill/Newsome and mostly via Hangingstone Road (outbound)* at Berry Brow.
*operates via Woodhead Road during daytime on Sundays and a weekday afternoon 308 Honley service.

via Huddersfield Road:

310

310 at HepworthHuddersfield Bus station - Lockwood - Berry Brow Parkgate - Honley Bridge - Woodhead Road - Thongsbridge - at Woodhead Road/Huddersfield Road - Holmfirth Bus station - Scholes - Jackson Bridge - Hepworth

Timetable at

Metro Timetables at

First Bus

For services at New Mill Road see Wooldale.

Other places near Thongsbridge: Brockholes Netherthong New Mill Wooldale

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