Lightens Edge

Lightens Edge is a locality in Holme Valley, Kirklees, England. Lightens Edge is situated near the locality Wilmer Hill, as well as near Holme Moss.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Britland Edge Hill and Holme Moss transmitting station.

Britland Edge Hill

Peak

Photo: John Fielding, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Britland Edge Hill is a hill, 523 metres high, in the Peak District in England. It is located on the border of Derbyshire and West Yorkshire.

Holme Moss transmitting station

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.

The Holme Moss transmitting station is a radio transmitting station at Holme Moss in West Yorkshire, England. The mast provides VHF coverage of both FM and DAB to a wide area around the mast including Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.

Black Hill, in the Peak District, is the highest hill in West Yorkshire, England. Its summit rises to an elevation of 582 m above sea level. It is surpassed in height by only two other major summits in the Peak District. Black Hill is situated 1½ miles northwest of Lightens Edge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Holme and Holmbridge.

Holme

Village

Photo: Richard Harvey, CC BY 2.5.

Holme is a village in the Holme Valley civil parish of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. The village straddles the A6024 road between Holmbridge and Lane village, 2.5 miles south-west of Holmfirth.

Holmbridge

Village

Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Holmbridge is a small village on the A6024 about 1.5 miles to the southwest of Holmfirth and about 8 miles south of Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, England. Holmbridge is situated 2 miles northeast of Lightens Edge.

Austonley

Hamlet

Austonley is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme Valley, in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire, England, about 2 miles west of Holmfirth. Austonley is situated 2½ miles north of Lightens Edge.

Lightens Edge

Type: Locality
Location: Holme Valley, Kirklees, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.52966° or 53° 31′ 47″ north

Longitude

-1.84681° or 1° 50′ 49″ west

Open location code

9C5WG5H3+V7

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1920540144

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Wilmer Hill and Holme Moss.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Holme Moss and Causeway Holes Plantation.

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