Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.pushpin_map
- United Kingdom Calderdale
- UK place.official_name
- Brighouse
- UK place.population
- 32,360
- UK place.population_ref
- (2001) (Brighouse/Rastrick urban area)
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- Calderdale
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- West Yorkshire
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Calder Valley
- UK place.post_town
- BRIGHOUSE
- UK place.postcode_district
- HD6
- UK place.postcode_area
- HD
- UK place.dial_code
- 01484
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SE135235
- UK place.london_distance_mi
- 150
- UK place.london_direction
- SSE
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Article
18 sectionsContents
- History
- Governance
- Brighouse Town Board
- Buildings
- Religion
- St James Church, Brighouse
- St Joseph's Church, Brighouse
- Central Methodist Church, Brighouse
- Arts and media
- Media
- Sport
- Transport
- Gallery
- Notable people
- Nearby villages and suburbs
- See also
- References
- External links
Brighouse (, locally also ) is a town within the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated on the River Calder, east of Halifax. It is served by Junction 25 of the M62 motorway and Brighouse railway station on the Caldervale Line and Huddersfield Line. In the town centre is a mooring basin on the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The United Kingdom Census 2001 gave the Brighouse / Rastrick subdivision of the West Yorkshire Urban Area a population of 32,360. The Brighouse ward of Calderdale Council had a population of 11,195 at the 2011 Census. Brighouse has an HD6 postcode, despite being associated with Halifax for local government.
The name Brighouse (or "Bridge House") originates from a building on (or close to) the bridge over the River Calder. In its early history, it was a hamlet of the nearby village of Rastrick.