Thornhill Lees: what to know before moving day
At the centre of Thornhill Lees is a group of Victorian buildings put up together. Holy Innocents Church, its vicarage and Thornhill Lees School all date from 1855-58, and the church's gate piers, sundial and the vicarage gates are listed along with them. The school building and the house behind it, built for the schoolmaster, are close to Station Road. Two schools serve the area today: Thornhill Lees Infant and Nursery School and Headfield Junior School.
Water shapes the way round. Cleggford Bridge, late 18th century and widened in the 19th, carries Thornhill Road over the Calder, and the railway and the navigation both cross the district too, so check which side of the water your street is on. Residential streets include Lees House Road, Vicarage Road, Selbourne Road, Millwater Avenue and Dale Street. Sparrow Wood nature reserve is on the edge.
How the van gets to Thornhill Lees
The B6117 is the road through: Thornhill Road crosses Cleggford Bridge from Dewsbury, and Station Road and Slaithwaite Road carry on towards Thornhill. Savile Road, the B6409, links across to Savile Town, and Forge Lane leaves the junction nearby. From Bradford, allow roughly 30 to 40 minutes via the M62 and Dewsbury.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 30 to 40 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Services for Thornhill Lees
Each service below links to its Dewsbury page, which covers how the job works in and around Dewsbury.
Thornhill Lees: questions before you book
Thornhill Lees has a Station Road: is there a station?
Not any more. Thornhill station, built by the Manchester and Leeds Railway, closed in 1961. The nearest station now is Dewsbury, on the line between Leeds and Huddersfield.
Nearby areas
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): WF12 9BU is in Dewsbury South ward, Kirklees, unparished area
- Thornhill Lees (Wikipedia): between Thornhill and Dewsbury town centre, between the River Calder and the Calder and Hebble Navigation; Thornhill Lees Infant & Nursery School and Headfield Junior School
- Thornhill (Wikipedia): the village on a ridge above the Calder; Thornhill Lees in the valley by the river and navigation
- Listed buildings in Dewsbury (Wikipedia, from the National Heritage List): Holy Innocents Church and vicarage 1855-58, gate piers and sundial, Thornhill Lees School and schoolmaster's house 1858, Cleggford Bridge carrying Thornhill Road (B6117) over the Calder
- Dewsbury railway station (Wikipedia): Thornhill station, built by the Manchester and Leeds Railway, closed in 1961
- OpenStreetMap map data (API extract): Station Road, Thornhill Road and Slaithwaite Road (B6117), Savile Road (B6409), Forge Lane, Lees House Road, Vicarage Road, Selbourne Road, Millwater Avenue, Dale Street, Cleggford Bridge, Holy Innocents, Headfield Junior School, Sparrow Wood LNR, the railway lines