Halifax, West Yorkshire
Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It is near the east Pennine foothills. In the 15th century, the town became an economic hub of the old West Riding of Yorkshire, primarily in woollen manufacture with the large Piece Hall square later built for trading wool in the town centre. The town was a thriving mill town during the Industrial Revolution with the Dean Clough Mill buildings a surviving landmark. In 2011, it had a population of 88,134. It is also the administrative centre of the wider Calderdale Metropolitan Borough.
Halifax
88,134 (2011 Census)
Haligonian
165 mi (266 km) S
United Kingdom
- Bank Top
- Boothtown
- Catherine Slack
- Copley
- Fountainhead
- Godley Gardens
- Holmfield
- Illingworth
- Illingworth Moor
- Lee Mount
- Mixenden (Village)
- Moor End
- Mount Tabor
- Norton Tower
- Ovenden (Village)
- Pellon
- Savile Park
- Shibden
- Siddal
- Skircoat Green
- St. Paul's
- Stump Cross
- Thrum Hall
- Town Centre
- Warley Town
HALIFAX
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Governance[edit]
The ancient parish of Halifax was divided into a large number of civil parishes in the 19th century. In Halifax, a body of improvement commissioners or town trustees was created between 1762 and 1823,[12] and the town became a borough constituency under the Reform Act 1832. Halifax was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1848 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and, with the passing of the Local Government Act 1888, became a county borough in 1889. Since 1974, Halifax has been the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire.
Geography[edit]
Topographically, Halifax is located in the south-eastern corner of the moorland region called the South Pennines. Halifax is situated about 4 miles (6 km) from the M62 motorway, close to Bradford and Huddersfield. The A641 road links the town with Brighouse, Bradford and Huddersfield. The Hebble Brook joins the River Calder at Salterhebble.
Media[edit]
Calderdale's local radio stations are BBC Radio Leeds on 95.3 FM, Pulse 1 on 102.5 FM, Heart Yorkshire on 106.2 FM, Capital Yorkshire on 105.1 FM and Phoenix Radio on 96.7 FM, which has its studios in Halifax.
Sunrise Radio (Yorkshire) has been given permission by media regulator Ofcom to expand its FM coverage to Halifax.[17]
Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire. Television signals are received from the Emley Moor TV transmitter and the local relay transmitter.[18]
Courier, Calderdale's local weekly newspaper, has its offices in the town.
Education[edit]
The Halifax area is home to two selective state schools, which are the Crossley Heath School in Savile Park[19] and North Halifax Grammar School in Illingworth.[20] Both schools achieve excellent GCSE and A level results with both schools achieving a large proportion of A*to C grades at GCSE level. In 2005, the Crossley Heath School was the highest ranking co-educational school in the North of England.
Calderdale College is a further education college located on Francis Street, just off King Cross Road, in the west of the town. The Maltings College opened in 2013 and offers a range of vocational sixth form courses.
In December 2006 it was announced that Calderdale College, in partnership with Leeds Beckett University, opened a new higher education institution in January 2007 called 'University Centre Calderdale'.[21]
