Place:Calderdale (metropolitan borough), West Yorkshire, England

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The Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. The estimated population in mid-2020 was 211,439. It takes its name from the River Calder, and dale, a word for valley. The name Calderdale usually refers to the borough through which the upper river flows, while the actual landform is known as the Calder Valley. Several small valleys contain tributaries of the River Calder.

Calderdale covers part of the South Pennines, and the Calder Valley is the southernmost of the Yorkshire Dales, though it is not part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The borough was formed in 1974 by the merger of six former local government districts, spanning, from east to west, the towns of Brighouse, Elland, Halifax, Sowerby Bridge, Hebden Bridge and Todmorden. Mytholmroyd, together with Hebden Bridge, forms Hebden Royd.

Halifax is the main commercial, cultural and administrative centre of the borough, with numerous high street chain stores, markets, central library, borough council offices, public transport hub, central police station, museums and the further and higher education college, as well as other major local organisations. Calderdale is served by Calderdale Council, which is headquartered is in Halifax, with some functions based in Todmorden.

Since May 2019, Calderdale Council has been under Labour majority control, for the first time in twenty years. The political composition is 28 Labour councillors, 13 Conservative, seven Liberal Democrat and three Independent.

History

The borough was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the

• Halifax (county borough)
• Brighouse (municipal borough)
• Todmorden (municipal borough) (partly in Lancashire until 1898)
• Elland (urban district)
• Hebden Royd (urban district)
• Ripponden (urban district)
• Sowerby Bridge (urban district)
• Queensbury and Shelf (part of this urban district)
• Hepton Rural District.

Suburbs and Villages

As well as the six towns, there are numerous villages and suburbs of Halifax including:

• Bank Top
• Barkisland
• Blackshaw or Blackshaw Head
• Boothtown
• Bradshaw
• Chiserley
• Clifton
• Colden
• Copley
• Cragg Vale
• Fountain Head
• Greetland
• Heptonstall
• Highroadwell
• Hipperholme
• Holywell Green
• Illingworth
• Kebroyd
• King Cross
• Lee Mount
• Lightcliffe
• Luddenden
• Luddendenfoot
• Lumbutts
• Midgley
• Mill Bank
• Mixenden
• Mount Tabor
• Mytholm
• Mytholmroyd
• Norland Town
• Northowram
• Norwood Green
• Ogden
• Old Town
• Ovenden
• Peckett Well
• Pellon
• Pye Nest
• Rastrick
• Ripponden
• Rishworth
• Salterhebble
• Savile Park
• Shelf
• Skircoat Green
• Slack
• Sowerby
• Southowram
• Sowood
• Stainland
• Stone Chair
• Stump Cross
• Triangle
• Wainstalls
• Warley Town
• West Vale
• Wheatley

Research Tips

• A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for what is now South Yorkshire, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
• Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (the southern part of Bradford, the southern part of Leeds, the southern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the southern part of Selby, Goole Rural District, and all the divisions of Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield)
• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.