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Calderdale

Brighouse

Brighouse is a town within the metropolitan borough of , in , England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated on the River Calder, 4 miles east of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Brighouse bus station and Brighouse railway station.

Bus station
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Brighouse, , England. The bus station is owned and managed by West Yorkshire Metro. The bus station is situated in the Brighouse Town Centre and could be accessed from Gooder Street and Ganny Road.

Railway station
Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY 2.5.
serves the town of Brighouse in , . The station lies on the Calder Valley line running west from . Opened in 1840, and closed in 1970, it reopened in 2000 and is served by Northern Trains, TransPennine Express and Grand Central services.

Library
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brookfoot and Thornhills.

Hamlet
Photo: Tim Marchant, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , England. It lies between the towns of and Brighouse on the A6025. The Calder and Hebble Navigation and the River Calder runs through .

Hamlet
is a hamlet in the district, in the county of , England. It is near the town of Brighouse. In 2023, Calderdale Council adopted a plan to build 3,000 new homes on land at and Woodhouse.

Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village on the eastern outskirts of Brighouse in the district of , England.

Brighouse

Latitude
53.70281° or 53° 42′ 10″ north
Longitude
-1.78009° or 1° 46′ 48″ west
Population
32,400
Elevation
262 feet (80 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BRH
Open location code
9C5WP639+4X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29814613
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2654715
Wiki­data ID
Q183296
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Brighouse” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بريغهاوس”
  • Asturian: “Brighouse”
  • Basque: “Brighouse”
  • Bengali: “ব্রিগহাউস”
  • Bulgarian: “Бригаус”
  • Catalan: “Brighouse”
  • Cebuano: “Brighouse”
  • Chinese: “布力豪斯”
  • Chinese: “布里格豪斯”
  • Dutch: “Brighouse”
  • French: “Brighouse”
  • German: “Brighouse”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રિગહાઉસ”
  • Irish: “Brighouse”
  • Italian: “Brighouse”
  • Japanese: “ブリガース”
  • Japanese: “ブリグハウス”
  • Japanese: “ブリッグハウス”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಿಘೌಸ್”
  • Korean: “브릭하우스”
  • Ladin: “Brighouse”
  • Lithuanian: “Brighausas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brighouse”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brighouse”
  • Norwegian: “Brighouse”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bryċġhūs”
  • Persian: “بریج‌هاوس”
  • Polish: “Brighouse”
  • Portuguese: “Brighouse”
  • Romanian: “Brighouse”
  • Russian: “Брайхаус”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بریج‌هاوس”
  • Spanish: “Brighouse”
  • Swedish: “Brighouse”
  • Tamil: “பிரிஃஹௌஸ்”
  • Telugu: “బ్రిగ్హౌస్”
  • Urdu: “بریگھووسی”
  • Welsh: “Brighouse”

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