Halifax
Also known as Halifax, West Yorkshire, Halifax, United Kingdom, Halifax, Yorkshire
minster town in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
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Halifax is a town in West Yorkshire, England, with a minster church at its center. It is historically significant as an important market and industrial center in the north of England.
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- Halifax view from Beacon Hill.jpg
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Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. 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 the 2021 census, the town was recorded as having a population of 88,134. It is also the administrative centre of the Calderdale Metropolitan Borough.
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