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.