Netherthong is a small village

Village

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 near the town of Holmfirth

Holmfirth

Holmfirth is a small town located on the A6024 Woodhead Road in the Holme Valley, within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Centred upon the confluence of the Holme and Ribble rivers, Holmfirth is south of Huddersfield and from Glossop. It mostly consists of...

. It lies in the Holme Valley

Holme Valley

Holme Valley is a large civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 25,049 . Its administrative centre is in Holmfirth. Other sizeable settlements in the parish include, Brockholes, Honley and New Mill...

 in the metropolitan borough

Metropolitan borough

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 of Kirklees

Kirklees

The Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 401,000 and includes the settlements of Batley, Birstall, Cleckheaton, Denby Dale, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Kirkburton, Marsden, Meltham, Mirfield and Slaithwaite...

 in West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

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, England

England

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. The village is on the B6107 road to Meltham

Meltham

Meltham is a small town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Holme Valley, below Wessenden Moor, four and a half miles south-west of Huddersfield on the edge of the Peak District National Park...

 from the main A6024 Woodhead Road through the Holme Valley from Honley to Holmfirth. It has a population of 1,730.

Netherthong is also a parish, and the village contains All Saints' Church, built between 1829-30 by Leeds architect Robert Dennis Chantrell

Robert Dennis Chantrell

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 and remodelled in 1877.

The former Wesleyan

Methodist Church of Great Britain

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 chapel in the village was the first in the Huddersfield

Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, situated halfway between Leeds and Manchester. It lies north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....

 area. The Chapel (now a private dwelling on the St Mary's Estate) was opened in 1771. In 1772, John Wesley

John Wesley

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himself preached there, despite his well-known feelings on the people of the Huddersfield area. (In 1757, Wesley wrote "I rode over the mountains to Huddersfield. A wilder people I never saw in England. The men, women and children filled the streets and seemed just ready to devour us.".)

There are two pubs in the village, The Clothiers and The Cricketers in nearby Deanhouse, a post office and a small village shop / Newsagents owned by W and V Halstead. It is part of the Londis Group.