Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England, to the south east of Huddersfield. As a civil parish it covers the villages of Denby Dale, Lower Denby, Upper Denby, Upper Cumberworth, Lower Cumberworth, Skelmanthorpe, Emley, Emley Moor. The parish had a population of 14,982 according to the 2001 census. The parish council gives the electorate of the village itself as 2,143. The river that runs though the village is called the River Dearne and was part of the 2007 United Kingdom floods.[clarification needed]
Population: 2,763
Latitude: 53° 34' 20.21" N
Longitude: -1° 39' 32.22" W
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