King Cross
King Cross, originally the site of an ancient stone cross, is an ecclesiastical parish created in 1845 in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Michael Steele, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Ian M, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include King Cross Library and Calderdale College.
Calderdale College
College
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Calderdale College is a further and higher education college based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. The college is the largest provider of further education courses and work-based learning and—through University Centre Calderdale as part of a cooperation with Leeds Beckett University that began in 2006—the sole provider of higher education awards in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale.
Wainhouse Tower
Tower
Photo: Michael Steele, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wainhouse Tower, sometimes called the "Tower of Spite", is a folly in the parish of King Cross, on the south-west side of Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, in England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Halifax and Skircoat Green.
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.
Skircoat Green
Village
Skircoat Green is an area to the south of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Skircoat is a ward of the Borough of Calderdale whose population at the 2011 Census was 12,712.
Sowerby Bridge
Town
Photo: Malcolm Street, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sowerby Bridge is a market town in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. The Calderdale Council ward population at the 2011 census was 11,703.
King Cross
- Type: Suburb
- Description: area and ecclesiastical parish in Halifax, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, England
- Categories: parish, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Calderdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.71516° or 53° 42′ 55″ northLongitude
-1.88257° or 1° 52′ 57″ westElevation
682 feet (208 metres)Open location code
9C5WP488+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 4934705227OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“King Cross” goes by many names.
- Polish: “King Cross (Anglia)”
- Polish: “King Cross”
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