Lower Cumberworth

53°34′37″N 1°40′23″W / 53.577°N 1.673°W / 53.577; -1.673

Lower Cumberworth is a village in the borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. The village is 9 miles (14 km) from Barnsley and 9 miles (14 km) from Huddersfield.

The civil parish of Denby Dale covers the village. The parish council gave the population of the villages of Upper and Lower Cumberworth as 1,222 in the 2001 Census.

Historically, Lower Cumberworth is part of the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Wapentake of Staincross and formerly of the ancient parish of High Hoyland. The Wapentake almost corresponds with the current Barnsley Metropolitan Area, although a few settlements and townships within the Staincross Wapentake such as Lower Cumberworth were put outside the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and now lie within the current West Yorkshire Metropolitan Area since April 1974.

The name Cumberworth derives from the Old English Cumbreworð meaning 'Cumbre's enclosure' or 'the enclosure of the Cumbrians'.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.