Brighouse
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 42 ′ N , 1 ° 48 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 32,360 (as of 2001) | ||
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| Post town | BRIGHOUSE | ||
| ZIP code section | HD6 | ||
| prefix | 01484 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | Yorkshire and the Humber | ||
| Shire county | West Yorkshire | ||
| District | Calderdale | ||
| British Parliament | Calder Valley | ||
Brighouse is a middle town in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale in the English county of West Yorkshire . According to the 2001 census, it had a total of 32,360 inhabitants.
traffic
Brighouse is crossed by the A641, A643, A644 and A6025 A-roads . To the south and south-east, the M62 motorway runs past Brighouse, an important east-west axis from Liverpool via Manchester and Leeds to Hull .
Brighouse is a hub between the Huddersfield Line and the Calder Valley Line . Northern Rail provides services between Leeds and Manchester Victoria via Dewsbury on the former , and trains on the Calder Valley Line between Wakefield Westgate , Leeds and Bradford , Halifax and Huddersfield .
Culture
The well-known Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band comes from Brighouse.
Twin town
The city has been twinned with Lüdenscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia since 1960 . A park in the city center of Lüdenscheid was named after the town of Brighouse due to the town twinning.
history
There was a river crossing over the calder called the Snake Hill Ford. It was believed to be part of the Roman route between Wakefield and Manchester . In 1275 a wooden structure called the Rastrick Bridge was recorded. This bridge was replaced by another made of lumber donated by John Hanson in 1514 . Hanson's son sponsored an exchange for this bridge in 1558. The river provided enough energy for the fluorine mining industry and some textile mills. Brighouse's industry received an industrial boost thanks to the construction of the Calder and Hebble Navigation , started in 1757 by engineer John Smeaton . The city was fully founded and incorporated in 1893.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Office for National Statistics: Census 2001: Urban Areas: Table KS01: Usual Resident Population.Retrieved August 26, 2009
- ↑ Brighouse . In: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica . Volume 4 ( wikisource.org [accessed April 19, 2018]).
