Halifax, West Yorkshire (gbr)

Halifax, West Yorkshire

Halifax, West Yorkshire ranks 2,402nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Neuruppin, Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, and Zhengzhou. The most famous people from Halifax, West Yorkshire are John E. Walker, Oliver Smithies, and David Hartley. Halifax, West Yorkshire has been the birth place of many singers, and soccer players. Halifax, West Yorkshire is located in United Kingdom.

Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. In the 15th century, the town became an economic hub of the old West Riding of Yorkshire, primarily in woollen manufacture with the large Piece Hall square later built for trading wool in the town centre. The town was a thriving mill town during the Industrial Revolution with the Dean Clough Mill buildings a surviving landmark. In the 2021 census, the town was recorded as having a population of 88,134. It is also the administrative centre of the Calderdale Metropolitan Borough. Read more on Wikipedia