Traditional county: West Yorkshire · District / Borough: Kirklees · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Explore Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Skelmanthorpe map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
| Place | Skelmanthorpe |
| Traditional County | West Yorkshire |
| District / Borough | Kirklees |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.592026 |
| Longitude | -1.653765 |
| Place Type | Village |
Skelmanthorpe wears the quiet dignity of a village that has seen seasons turn and generations pass. It lies 7.5 km north-north-west of Penistone (from Penistone: bearing 348°T, OS grid SE 230 106), and is situated north-north-east of Lower Cumberworth village. The land around Skelmanthorpe rolls with a gentle, almost secretive grace, the fields a patchwork of greens and golds under a sky that often stretches wide and luminous. Its history is whispered in the enduring stone of its older buildings, hinting at a past where livelihoods were perhaps tied more closely to the soil and the murmur of distant streams. Even now, the air in Skelmanthorpe seems to carry a faint echo of the market days of old, a feeling of purpose that has settled into the very stones of its streets.
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Explore Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.592026, -1.653765. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | June 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |