Meltham
Meltham is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Holme Valley, below Wessenden Moor, 5 miles south-west of Huddersfield on the edge of the Peak District National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,840 residents
- Description: village in West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Meltham, Kirklees” and “Meltham, West Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Christ Church and Blackmoorfoot Reservoir.
Blackmoorfoot Reservoir
Reservoir
Blackmoorfoot Reservoir is a freshwater supply reservoir located on moorland 4 miles south of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. The reservoir lies at an altitude of 253 metres above sea level, and is fed by catchwaters dug into the moorland to the south-west of the reservoir.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Helme and Holt Head.
Helme
Hamlet
Helme is a village in the civil parish of Meltham, in the Kirklees district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It is near the town of Meltham and Blackmoorfoot Reservoir. Helme, constituted in 1858, was part of Almondbury parish in the 19th century.
Holt Head
Hamlet
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holt Head is a hamlet, which is situated 1½ miles northwest of Meltham.
South Crosland
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
South Crosland is a village in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. South Crosland is situated 1½ miles northeast of Meltham.
Meltham
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Meltham, Kirklees, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.59186° or 53° 35′ 31″ northLongitude
-1.85045° or 1° 51′ 2″ westPopulation
7,840Elevation
581 feet (177 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB MLAOpen location code
9C5WH4RX+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 1681441218OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Meltham” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Meltham”
- Bengali: “মেল্টহ্যাম”
- Cebuano: “Meltham”
- Chinese: “Meltham”
- Chinese: “梅尔罕”
- Chinese: “梅爾罕”
- Dutch: “Meltham”
- French: “Meltham”
- German: “Meltham”
- Gujarati: “મેલથમ”
- Irish: “Meltham”
- Italian: “Meltham”
- Japanese: “メルサム”
- Kannada: “ಮೆಲ್ಥಮ್”
- Korean: “멜텀”
- Ladin: “Meltham”
- Lithuanian: “Meltemas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Meltham”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Meltham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Meltham”
- Norwegian: “Meltham”
- Persian: “ملتهام، یورکشر غربی”
- Polish: “Meltham”
- Portuguese: “Meltham”
- Russian: “Мелтэм”
- South Azerbaijani: “ملتهام، یورکشر غربی”
- Spanish: “Meltham”
- Swedish: “Meltham”
- Tamil: “மேல்தம்”
- Telugu: “మల్దమ్”
- Turkish: “Meltham”
- Urdu: “میلتھم”
- Welsh: “Meltham”
- “Meltham”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Meltham”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.