Traditional county: West Yorkshire · District / Borough: Calderdale · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Explore Thornhills, West Yorkshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Thornhills 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 | Thornhills |
| Traditional County | West Yorkshire |
| District / Borough | Calderdale |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.710521 |
| Longitude | -1.771011 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Thornhills unfolds like a quiet secret in the West Yorkshire landscape. It lies 1.3 km north-east of Brighouse (from Brighouse: bearing 45°T, OS grid SE 152 238). The hamlet breathes the gentle exhalations of the Calder Valley, its fields catching the soft, diffused light that often graces these Pennine slopes. Though no grand abbey or imposing castle marks its centre, Thornhills possesses a humble dignity, its stone cottages speaking of generations who have worked this land, their lives interwoven with the changing seasons. The air here carries a faint, earthy perfume, a reminder of the fertile ground and the distant murmur of the river that has shaped this place. For those who wander its lanes, Thornhills offers a moment of quiet reflection, a pause in the hurried march of the wider world.
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Explore Thornhills, 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: 53.710521, -1.771011. 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. |