Editing Skelmanthorpe (section)

==Sports teams and facilities==
The village has had its own [[cricket]] team since around 1876; the current [[cricket pitch]] dates from 1900.<ref name=cricket>{{cite web | title=Skelmanthorpe cricket club history | work=The Cricket History of Calerdale and Kirklees – Skelmanthorpe CC | url=http://www.ckcricketheritage.org.uk/southkirklees/skelmanthorpe/clubhome.htm | access-date=26 April 2006 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829122402/http://www.ckcricketheritage.org.uk/southkirklees/skelmanthorpe/clubhome.htm | archive-date=29 August 2006 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

The village also has its own junior and senior football teams that play in the Huddersfield leagues respectively.

There are two crown green bowls clubs within the village. One club is based at the Windmill Pub on the outskirts of the village and the other club based in the centre of the village. Each club have their own bowling green.

Following a [[petition]] from local young people<ref name=skate>{{cite web | title=Skate-park petition | work=Annual Report of the Denby Dale Parish Council 2004–2005 | url=http://www.denbydale.com/content/council_report_04_05 | access-date=23 June 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517162704/http://www.denbydale.com/content/council_report_04_05 | archive-date=17 May 2008 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> [[fundraising]] allowed the construction of a small [[skatepark]] which opened early 2006. Residents from the area complained about the noise and the skatepark has since been moved. It is now at the bottom of the football field.<ref name=skate2>{{cite web | title=Skate-park | work=December minutes of the Denby Dale Parish Council 2008 | url=http://www.denbydale.com/content/minutes_december_2008 | access-date=23 June 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709012651/http://www.denbydale.com/content/minutes_december_2008 | archive-date=9 July 2011 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Parkgate Sports and Community Trust have won the right for a new sports complex to be built at Parkgate.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lavigueur |first1=Nick |title=Royal approval for Skelmanthorpe sports complex project |url=https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/royal-approval-skelmanthorpe-sports-complex-7896481 |accessdate=16 February 2019 |work=Huddersfield Examiner |date=7 October 2014}}</ref>