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36-589: Clayton West is a village in the parish of Denby Dale , in Kirklees , West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 2,704 in 2008. It is 11 miles (18 km) south-east of Huddersfield and 7 miles (11 km) north-west of Barnsley . Clayton West was originally in the Parish of High Hoyland , and the Wapentake of Staincross which more or less corresponds with today's Barnsley Borough Area. The Industrial Revolution

72-538: A Scout Group which offers access to a number of outdoor activities including archery, target shooting, kayaking and much more. In 2007 severe flooding of the river Dearne affected some 420 properties in Clayton West and Skelmanthorpe. Summer flooding has also occurred in the area in 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2008. The textile industry history of the area has resulted in modern-day conversions of old textile mill to become residential accommodation. The valley floor also has

108-650: A high density of residential properties making these areas more prone to flooding. Denby Dale Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire , England. It is 8 miles north-west of Barnsley and 10 miles south-east of Huddersfield The village is the main village in the Denby Dale civil parish that also covers Lower Denby , Upper Denby , Upper Cumberworth , Lower Cumberworth , Skelmanthorpe , Emley , Emley Moor and Clayton West . The parish had

144-748: A line that branched off the Penistone Line . The station along with Skelmanthorpe was closed in January 1983. The Kirklees Light Railway now runs and operates trains from the former station. Clayton West was occasionally used as a location for Britain's longest running comedy series Last of the Summer Wine , in which one of the village's former pubs, "The Shoulder of Mutton" in Church Lane, features prominently. The village lost its post office in 2010. All Saints Church, on Church Lane, dates from 1875. It belongs to

180-484: A population of 14,982 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 16,365 at the 2011 census. The parish council gives the electorate of the village itself as 2,143. The River Dearne runs through the village; in the floods of 2007 it burst its banks on two occasions and caused damage to Springfield Mill. First recorded as Denby Dyke. Before the Industrial Revolution the village was sparsely-populated with

216-551: A post office and comprises 1,098 acres, with real-estate worth £4,371, £122 of which are in mines. The population is now listed as 1,532, with 325 houses. Woollen manufacture is again listed as a pre-dominant industry. Chapels are listed for independents (constructed in 1866) and Baptists. Further information of the progressing village is delineated in Kelly's 1881 Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire . It describes "Clayton West" as

252-572: A small textile industry at the crossroads of the Barnsley to Shepley Lane Head and the Wakefield to Denby Dale roads. Within 25 years, factories and mills had been built and had a railway station on the Penistone Line . Denby Dale provided the textile industry with raw materials, coal, and transportation. Silk for the Queen Mother 's wedding dress was made at Springfield Mill. With the economy flourishing,

288-400: A township and large village. The manufacture of fancy woollens, as well as twine and flax spinning seems to be the prevalent industry of the village. The church of All Saints, constructed in 1875, is now listed along with Congregational, Baptist, New Connexion Methodist, Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. Kelly lists the charities for distribution as being £13 annually . Also mentioned

324-544: A village hall. The most recent in 2000, weighed 12 tonnes (13 tons) and celebrated the new millennium. Denby Dale Pies was founded in the village. In 1940 it was agreed by the Denby Dale Local Comforts Fund, the giant pie dish would be sold for scrap to help the war effort. There was a procession, cricket match, dancing all followed by the selling of the dish. Samuel Lewis (publisher) This work contains every fact of importance tending to illustrate

360-421: A village store and two pubs. It has a primary school and nursery called Kayes First and Nursery School, which was built in 1862, and was doubled in size in 1981. Kayes First and Nursery School consists of 202 children and 32 staff from Nursery to year 5 (2017 figures). The school is also part of a three tier schooling system with Scissett Middle School and Shelley College (formally Shelley High School). It also has

396-522: Is a voluntary aided primary school associated with the Church of England in Upper Denby. The school has two classes, infants and juniors, with the infants running through years reception to year 2 and the juniors running through the years 3 to 5. At the turn of the millennium, there were around 40 to 50 pupils in the school. Denby Dale has a tradition of baking giant pies, which started in 1788 to celebrate

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432-562: Is also a constituent member of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority , led by the directly elected Mayor of West Yorkshire . Clayton West was historically a township in the ancient parish of High Hoyland . In 1862 the township of Clayton West was made a local government district , governed by a local board. Townships were also reclassified as civil parishes in 1866. Local government districts were reconstituted as urban districts in 1894. Clayton West Urban District

468-460: Is the un-denominational school (Kaye's First School) built by William and John Kaye esqs., which was erected in 1862, and in 1881 William Priestly was school master. Capt. Henry Savile is lord of the manor. The main landowners are listed as W. B. Beaumont esq., M.P. W. T. Spencer-Stanhope esq., J.P. John Kaye esq., J.P. and Thomas Norton esq. J.P. The area occupied by the village is now 1,140 acres with rateable value, £4,548. The population in 1871

504-566: The corn laws . The seventh (the Infirmary Pie) raised money to endow a cot at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary . The eighth pie, in 1964, was to celebrate four royal births but was marred by the deaths of four committee members in a car accident while returning from filming in London for a pilot of a television show (later to become the Eamonn Andrews Show). The eighth pie raised money to provide

540-480: The diocese in which it was situated, and—of novel importance—the Roman Catholic district in which the parish was located and the names of corresponding Catholic parishes. There were six subsequent editions, the last of which (1848-9) was in four volumes and an atlas. First published in 1833, there was a second edition in 1837, a third in 1843, and a fourth (in two volumes and an atlas) in 1849. The title page of

576-400: The 1837 preface, the editor noted that: The numerous county histories, and local descriptions of cities, towns, and districts of England and Wales, rendered the publication of their former works, in comparison with the present, an easy task. The extreme paucity of such works, in relation to Ireland, imposed the necessity of greater assiduity in the personal survey, and proportionately increased

612-458: The Diocese of Wakefield. All Saints cost £2,300 to construct between 1872 and 1875. Half of the cost was met by the parish, the other half by WB Beaumont of Bretton Hall (later to be Baron Allendale ), the church's patron and benefactor. All Saints can be seen from many places around the village, the only building with a spire, which houses one bell. The roof slates of the church were last replaced in

648-526: The Lord of £1 in 1066. Plough land is also listed as being two, with other resources listed as woodland, one half times one half leagues. The Lord in 1066 is stated to be Alsi, son of Karski . The Lord in 1086, following the conquest, was listed as Ilbert de Lacy (1045–1093) and is attributed as the builder of Pontefract Castle , who is also noted as the Tenant-in-Chief in 1086. The de Lacy family took part in

684-838: The Mill are available . War Memorial The village has an obelisk style war memorial , now situated at the junction of Church Lane with Holmfield Road. The memorial commemorates 37 people, 30 from the First World War, six from the Second World War and one from the Falklands War. The war memorial used to be located on the grass triangle at Hill Top. There are two tiers of local government covering Clayton West, at parish and metropolitan borough level: Denby Dale Parish Council and Kirklees Council , based in Huddersfield . Kirklees Council

720-471: The Norman Conquest of Briton and there is evidence that Ilbert fought at William's side at Hastings. Listed as Clayton, West, the village featured in " A Topographical Dictionary of England " which was published by Samuel Lewis , London, 1848. In 1848 the village had 1440 residents and was described as being 1080 acres belonging to various owners. Mining was listed as the predominant industry, along with

756-400: The adjacent village of Emley. Records from the 13th century indicate that monks from Byland Abbey mined and smelted iron ore. They mined using bell pits. A pit was sunk to a depth of 7 meters and worked outward from the bottom of the shaft. Pits dating back to the 16th century can be seen off Woodhouse Lane. Evidence of bell pits is also clearly visible in the woodlands around Duke Wood, down

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792-412: The arms of the cities, bishoprics, corporate towns, and boroughs; and of the seals of the several municipal corporations. With an appendix, describing the electoral boundaries of the several boroughs, as defined by the late act. By Samuel Lewis in two volumes. The work is in two large volumes with a folding map of Wales and separate county maps facing the entry for each individual county. The 4th edition

828-472: The early 1980s, following a slate appeal when raffle tickets were sold to raise funds for the roof replacement, the spire was also repainted and reclad at this time. In 2019 the roof is again in need of major restoration. Historical Listings Clayton West is listed as Clayton [West] in the Domesday book and has been translated as meaning settlement on clayey soil. The settlement had a land value attributed to

864-531: The expansion. Although the parish of Scissett had been created in 1839, yet Clayton West remained as a part of High Hoyland. By 1865 eleven coal mines existed in the Dearne Valley. The Clayton West village coal mine (pit), "Park Mill", closed in 1989, having been somewhat bypassed by the events of the UK miners strike (1984–85) . Park Mill Colliery operated for over 100 years. There is evidence of 700 years of mining in

900-485: The expense. Lewis relied on the information provided by local contributors and on the earlier works published such as Coote's Statistical Survey (1801), Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the Road of Ireland (1777), Pigot's Trade Directory (1824) and other sources. He also used the various parliamentary reports and in particular the census of 1831 and the education returns of the 1820s and early 1830s. Local contributors were given

936-452: The first edition gives an indication of the ambitious scope of the work: A topographical dictionary of Wales, comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries, and townships, with historical and statistical descriptions; illustrated by maps of the different counties; and a map of wales, showing the principal towns, roads, railways, navigable rivers, and canals; and embellished with engravings of

972-562: The hill from Cliffe Woods, in Clayton West. Joseph Norton was the owner of a number of mines around the 1870s which he used to mine to produce coal to power his textile mills located at Cuttlehurst and in Scissett. One of these was a mine in Duke Wood. This shaft still acts as an emergency exit and air vent for the privately owned "Flacks" mine, the only mine still operating in the village. Clayton West railway station opened 1 September 1879, on

1008-412: The local history of England . Arranged alphabetically by place ( village , parish , town , etc.), it provides a faithful description of all English localities as they existed at the time of first publication (1831), showing exactly where a particular civil parish was located in relation to the nearest town or towns, the barony , county , and province in which it was situated, its principal landowners,

1044-465: The new metropolitan borough of Kirklees, at which point a successor parish of Denby Dale was established. Clayton West is located between the villages of High Hoyland , Scissett and Skelmanthorpe . The river that runs through the village is called the River Dearne and was part of the 2007 United Kingdom floods . The village is in the parish of Clayton West and High Hoyland. Facilities include

1080-414: The population increased and the village grew. The village is served by Denby Dale railway station , and also has 2 bus stops. The D1 Denby Darts bus service runs to Skelmanthorpe and Huddersfield . Denby Dale First and Nursery school (formerly known as Gilthwaites First School and Denby Dale Nursery) provides education from aged 2 to aged 10. Denby Church of England Voluntary Aided First School

1116-567: The production of silk and worsted goods for clothing. The account states that many large mills had been constructed in the village for this purpose. In 1848 the four places of worship were listed. Listed as Clayton (West), in John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72). Clayton West is described as a township of the High Hoyland parish with hamlets of Cuttlehurst, Parkmill, Topitt and Spring-Grove. The village has

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1152-510: The recovery of King George III from mental illness. To date ten pies have been made as part of nine pie festivals. In August 1887, a pie baked to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria spoiled and was buried in quicklime. A replacement pie (the 'resurrection' pie) was baked in September 1887. The sixth pie was baked on 1 August 1896, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the repeal of

1188-599: Was 1,531. Textile Mills One such mill, the Spring Grove Mill, still has buildings visible, just off the A636, opposite the Scissett swimming baths building. Locally is it still known as Beanlands Mill , named after the Beanland family who purchased the business in 1869 from Charles Walker for £8,500. The mill stopped operating as such in 1975, and the mill chimney has since been removed along with other buildings. Pictures of

1224-424: Was abolished in 1938, merging with several small neighbouring urban districts to form a larger urban district called Denby Dale. The parish of Clayton West continued to exist until 1974, but as an urban parish it had no administrative functions after the creation of Denby Dale in 1938. In 1951 the parish of Clayton West had a population of 1682. Denby Dale Urban District was in turn abolished in 1974 to become part of

1260-410: Was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. The Industrial Revolution had brought a migration of the population to the Dearne Valley where abundant water was available for manufacturers, so people lived away from the church. Both Clayton West and Scissett had grown so rapidly that there were people still alive in 1873 that could remember

1296-470: Was transcribed and made available free-to-view online by the University of London. First published in 1837 in two volumes, with an accompanying atlas, it marked a new and significantly higher standard in such accounts of Ireland. Apart from The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland published in 1845, it has not been superseded. The first edition is available online. A second edition was published in 1842. In

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