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Halifax

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.
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  • Type: Town with 82,600 residents
  • Description: minster town in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Halifax, United Kingdom” and “Halifax, West Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Halifax railway station and Eureka!.

Railway station
Photo: David Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Halifax in , . It lies on the Calder Valley line and is 17 miles west from . Platform 2 is used by eastbound services towards and , while platform 1 accommodates westbound trains towards , , , and Manchester Victoria.

Museum
Photo: Sospot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Children's Museum is an interactive educational for children in Halifax, , England, with a focus on learning through play.

Town hall
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is a 19th century in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It is a grade II* listed building. It is notable for its design and interiors by Charles Barry and his son, Edward Middleton Barry, and for its sculptures by John Thomas.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ovenden and Skircoat Green.

Suburb
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , England, next to and about a mile from Halifax town centre. It is also a Ward whose population at the 2011 Census was 12,351.

Village
is an area to the south of Halifax, , . Skircoat is a ward of the whose population at the 2011 Census was 12,712.

Town
Photo: Malcolm Street, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a market town in the Upper Calder Valley in in , England. The Calderdale Council ward population at the 2011 census was 11,703. is situated 2 miles southwest of Halifax.

Halifax

Latitude
53.7229° or 53° 43′ 23″ north
Longitude
-1.8605° or 1° 51′ 38″ west
Population
82,600
Elevation
492 feet (150 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HFX
Open location code
9C5WP4FQ+5R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26703086
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647632
Wiki­data ID
Q826561
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Halifax” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Halifax”
  • Arabic: “هاليفاكس”
  • Armenian: “Հալիֆաքս”
  • Asturian: “Halifax”
  • Azerbaijani: “Halifaks”
  • Basque: “Halifax (Mendebaldeko Yorkshire)”
  • Basque: “Halifax”
  • Belarusian: “Галіфакс”
  • Bengali: “হ্যালিফ্যাক্স”
  • Breton: “Halifax”
  • Bulgarian: “Халифакс”
  • Catalan: “Halifax”
  • Cebuano: “Halifax (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
  • Cebuano: “Halifax”
  • Chinese: “哈利法克斯”
  • Czech: “Halifax”
  • Danish: “Halifax”
  • Dutch: “Halifax”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هاليفاكس (غرب يوركشير)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هاليفاكس”
  • Esperanto: “Halifakso”
  • Esperanto: “Halifax”
  • Estonian: “Halifax”
  • Finnish: “Halifax”
  • French: “Halifax”
  • Galician: “Halifax”
  • German: “Halifax”
  • Greek: “Χάλιφαξ”
  • Gujarati: “હેલિફેક્સ”
  • Hebrew: “הליפקס”
  • Hungarian: “Halifax”
  • Icelandic: “Halifax”
  • Irish: “Halifax”
  • Italian: “Halifax, West Yorkshire”
  • Italian: “Halifax”
  • Japanese: “ハリファクス (イングランド)”
  • Japanese: “ハリファクス”
  • Kannada: “ಹ್ಯಾಲಿಫ್ಯಾಕ್ಸ್”
  • Kashmiri: “ہیلیفیکس”
  • Korean: “핼리팩스”
  • Ladin: “Halifax”
  • Latin: “Halifacium”
  • Latvian: “Helifeksa (Anglija)”
  • Latvian: “Helifeksa”
  • Lithuanian: “Halifaksas”
  • Lithuanian: “Halifax”
  • Luxembourgish: “Halifax”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Halifax i West Yorkshire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Halifax”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Halifax i England”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Halifax i West Yorkshire”
  • Norwegian: “Halifax”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hāligfeax, West Þriðing”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hāligfeax”
  • Ossetian: “Галифакс (Англис)”
  • Ossetian: “Галифакс”
  • Persian: “هلیفکس (یورکشایر غربی)”
  • Persian: “هلیفکس”
  • Picard: “Halifax (Roéyôme-Uni)”
  • Picard: “Halifax”
  • Polish: “Halifax”
  • Portuguese: “Halifax, West Yorkshire”
  • Portuguese: “Halifax”
  • Quechua: “Halifax”
  • Romanian: “Halifax, West Yorkshire”
  • Romanian: “Halifax”
  • Russian: “Галифакс”
  • Serbian: “Halifaks”
  • Serbian: “Халифакс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Halifax, West Yorkshire”
  • Silesian: “Halifax”
  • Slovak: “Halifax”
  • Slovenian: “Halifax, Anglija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هلیفکس”
  • Spanish: “Halifax (Yorkshire del Oeste)”
  • Spanish: “Halifax”
  • Swedish: “Halifax, West Yorkshire”
  • Swedish: “Halifax”
  • Tamil: “ஹாலிபாஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Һәлифәкс”
  • Telugu: “హ్యాలిఫిక్స్”
  • Turkish: “Halifax, West Yorkshire”
  • Ukrainian: “Галіфакс (Англія)”
  • Ukrainian: “Галіфакс”
  • Urdu: “ہیلی فیکس، ویسٹ یارکشائر”
  • Urdu: “ہیلیفیکس”
  • Volapük: “Halifax”
  • Welsh: “Halifax, Gorllewin Swydd Efrog”
  • Welsh: “Halifax”
  • Western Frisian: “Halifax”
  • Yiddish: “האליפאקס”
  • “Halifax”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Halifax”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.