Denby Dale is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire , England , to the south east of Huddersfield . The civil parish 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 , 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 separate occasions and caused damage to Springfield Mill
floods of 2007
2007 United Kingdom floods
Denby Dale