{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | coordinates = {{coord|53.6712|-1.8285|display=inline,title}} | official_name = Ainley Top | pushpin_map = United Kingdom Calderdale | map_type = West Yorkshire | population = 649 | population_ref = (inc. Blackley)<ref>[http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/council/statistics/ward-information/warddigest/digest.pdf Calderdale 2004 Ward Digest] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028235831/http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/council/statistics/ward-information/warddigest/digest.pdf |date=28 October 2008 }} Retrieved 16 October 2009</ref> | metropolitan_borough = Calderdale | metropolitan_county = West Yorkshire | region = Yorkshire and the Humber | constituency_westminster = Calder Valley | post_town = HUDDERSFIELD | postcode_district1 = HD2 | postcode_district2 = HD3 | postcode_area1 = HD | postcode_area2 = HD | dial_code = 01422 | os_grid_reference = SE115195 | static_image = Ainley Top Sign 2016 01.jpg | static_image_width = 200px | static_image_caption = Village sign }}
'''Ainley Top''' is a village in Calderdale, West Yorkshire in England. It is situated approximately {{convert|3|mi}} north west of Huddersfield on the A629 to Elland and Halifax.
It is situated on a hill (the Ainleys) with the M62 motorway to the north, and junction 24 of the motorway adjacent to the village. It is in the Elland ward of Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council with 419 registered electors in 248 properties in 2013.<ref name=Review>[http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/council/democracy/polling-stations/elland-ward.pdf Calderdale Council (2013)] Elland Ward. Retrieved 13 October 2016</ref> <gallery> File:Ainley Top Nags Head 2016 01.jpg|Nag's Head Inn File:Ainley Top Hill Top Avenue 2016.jpg|Hill Top Avenue File:Ainley Top Cedar Court Hotel 2016 01.jpg|Cedar Court Hotel, Lindley Moor Road File:Ainley Top Rbt Sign 2016.jpg|Ainley Top Roundabout </gallery>
==Transport== Ainley Top is also the name of the roundabout just south of the village. This is the junction of the A643 and the A629 and also gives access to junction 24 of the M62 motorway.
The {{convert|1.5|mi}} section of the M62 running from Outlane to Ainley Top opened at lunchtime on Wednesday 20 December 1972.<ref>''Huddersfield Examiner'', Wednesday 20 December 1972, page 1</ref><ref>''Huddersfield Examiner'', Thursday 21 December 1972, page 5</ref>
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Category:Geography of Calderdale Category:Geography of Huddersfield
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