Denby Dale and Kirkburton Archive Collection

The Denby Dale & Kirkburton Archive Collection is a series of scanned records that have been made available to the public on the Denby Dale Parish Council website covering the history of this area of Kirklees in West Yorkshire.

The collection comprises 63,000 digital scans of photographs, historical documents and other items showing the history of the area during the late 18th and 19th centuries. It shows how the villages of Birdsedge, Clayton West, Denby Dale, Emley, Kirkburton, Scissett and Skelmanthorpe grew through the industries of agriculture, textiles and coal mining.