Brockholes

Brockholes is a small village in West Yorkshire, England in the administrative area of Kirklees Metropolitan Council and Holme Valley Parish Council. It is within the Postal district of Holmfirth.

The A616 route between Huddersfield and Penistone passes directly through the village and the A628 Woodhead Road passes down the valley on its westward side. Central to the village is a small green set back from the A616 by some terraced housing, and overlooked by a church, a chapel and the village hall, formerly the village school. A more modern junior and infants school Brockholes Primary School for 4 to 11 year olds, now exists a little further up the road to the local Railway station, which has a direct link between Huddersfield and Sheffield on the Penistone Line.

Village folklore purports that the village was named after the extensive network of badger setts that used to exist in the surrounding woodlands, Brock being an old English name for a badger. Today just a few, well-hidden setts still exist, carefully watched over by a local badger protection group.

The village of Honley borders to the immediate north of the village and Holmfirth lies to the south. According to the 2001 census, Brockholes had a resident population of 1,861 in 764 households.