(Village near Lower Denby)
Traditional county: West Yorkshire · District / Borough: Kirklees · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Explore Upper Denby, West Yorkshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Upper Denby 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 | Upper Denby |
| Traditional County | West Yorkshire |
| District / Borough | Kirklees |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.560938 |
| Longitude | -1.657687 |
| Place Type | Village |
Upper Denby, a quiet corner of West Yorkshire, exhales the very breath of the Yorkshire landscape. It lies 4.3 km north-north-west of Penistone (from Penistone: bearing 336°T, OS grid SE 227 072), and is situated south-west of Lower Denby village. The air here, especially on a crisp morning, carries the scent of damp earth and distant sheep, a fragrance that seems to cling to the stone walls of its modest dwellings. Though no grand monuments mark its presence, the subtle rise and fall of the surrounding fields, under a sky that often shifts from bruised grey to a tender, watery blue, speaks of generations who have worked this soil. The village green, worn smooth by countless footsteps, offers a quiet space for contemplation, a small patch of resilience against the wilder edges of the Pennine moors.
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Explore Upper Denby, 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: 53.560938, -1.657687. 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. |