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Halifax
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minster town in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Calderdale
- Population
- 104100
- Area
- 20.73
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Capital of
- Calderdale
- Image
- Halifax view from Beacon Hill.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01422
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- Commons category
- Halifax, West Yorkshire
- topic's main category
- Category:Halifax, West Yorkshire
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Halifax, West Yorkshire
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Halifax, West Yorkshire
- Commons gallery
- Halifax, West Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE090254
- historic county
- Yorkshire
- different from
- Halifax
- P8168
- Buj
- P12749
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Encyclopedic overview
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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