Netherton is a village in the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.

[4] Netherton Hall, a Grade II* listed manor house, was built around 1775 for the Perkins family.

[6] A mineral line connecting Sir John Lister Lister-Kaye's Caphouse Colliery to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's Barnsley branch and coal staithes on the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Calder Grove passed through Netherton.

[9] Hartley Bank Colliery was sunk in 1872 on the south side of the Calder and Hebble Navigation and closed in 1968.

[11] The village is situated on the road from Horbury Bridge to Midgley, the B6117, on a hill above the valley of the River Calder.