Boothtown
Boothtown is a suburb of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, which falls within Town Ward, one of the 17 wards of Calderdale. Its history was dominated by the mills of the textile industry.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Bankfield Museum and All Souls’ Church, Halifax.
Bankfield Museum
Museum
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Bankfield Museum is a grade II listed historic house museum, incorporating a regimental museum and textiles gallery in Boothtown, Halifax, England. It is notable for its past ownership and development by Colonel Edward Akroyd, MP, and its grand interior.
All Souls’ Church, Halifax
Church
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All Souls Church, Halifax, is a redundant Anglican church in Haley Hill, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
Statue of Colonel Edward Akroyd
Work of art
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Statue of Colonel Edward Akroyd is a work of art.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Akroydon and Halifax.
Akroydon
Hamlet
Photo: Declanbowley, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Akroydon model housing scheme is a Victorian-era model village at Boothtown, Halifax, in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England.
Halifax
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Halifax is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England, with a population of around 90,000 in 2021. It is well known as a centre of England's woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward, which dealt through the Halifax Piece Hall.
Ovenden
Suburb
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ovenden is a village in West Yorkshire, England, next to Boothtown and Illingworth about a mile from Halifax town centre. It is also a Calderdale Ward whose population at the 2011 Census was 12,351.
Boothtown
- Type: Suburb
- Description: village in West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Calderdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.73294° or 53° 43′ 59″ northLongitude
-1.86417° or 1° 51′ 51″ westElevation
682 feet (208 metres)Open location code
9C5WP4MP+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 59005695OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Polish—“Boothtown” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوثتاون”
- Dutch: “Boothtown”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوثتاون”
- French: “Boothtown”
- Irish: “Boothtown”
- Polish: “Boothtown”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Boothtown”. Photo: Paul Glazzard, CC BY-SA 2.0.