Upper Denby is a small village within the civil parish of Denby Dale, and the borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. Lying 7 miles north-west of Barnsley and 11 miles to the south-east of Huddersfield and 2 miles south of Denby Dale, on an east facing slope of the Pennines, it occupies a position 820 ft above sea level. The southern edge of the village is bordered by the Metropolitan borough of Barnsley within the county of South Yorkshire.

The village

It has a pub (The George Inn), a dentist, a church (St John the Evangelist) and cricket ground. (The Denby Cricket Club are in the Huddersfield Cricket League) Upper Denby is home to Denby C of E first school. In the 2001 census the population was given as 719 and included the settlement of High Flatts. By the 2011 census, this had dropped to a population of 715.