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General Notes on Brighouse |
Brighouse is now the second largest town in Calderdale,
lying to the east of Halifax.
The Snake Hill ford across the Calder was a part of the Roman
road from Manchester to Wakefield.
The river crossing is the original reason for a settlement
here, and the town was originally a hamlet to Rastrick.
The name Brighouse – or bridge
house – comes from a house which stood by Rastrick Bridge.
Brighouse township was a part of the Honour of Pontefract.
Historically, the name has several forms:
Brighuses [1240],
Broghouse [1397],
and
Bridghouse [1796].
Pronunciation:
Brigg-house with the stress on the first syllable.
Roger de Brighouse is mentioned in 1314.
A gateway near the bottom of Bonegate is dated HB 1635
for Henry Brighouse.
The Calder & Hebble Navigation came to Brighouse in 1760, and the
canal basin was opened in 1768.
The industrial revolution and growth in the
cotton,
silk,
quarrying,
wire-making,
woollen and
worsted
industries led to the growth of the town.
Brighouse was originally a part of the Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse
township.
The Parish of Brighouse was created in 1843.
In 1846, Brighouse separated from Hipperholme.
In 1850, Brighouse had a population of 6,000.
There were 13 cotton mills, a carpet factory, 3 woollen and worsted
mills, and many other factories, foundries and soap manufacturers.
The Borough of Brighouse with Rastrick and Hove Edge was
created – by an amalgamation of the local boards of Brighouse and
Rastrick, and Hove Edge – in 1893 with Alderman William Smith as
the first Mayor.
Spenborough Urban District was formed in 1915 and combined the three
districts of Cleckheaton, Gomersal and Liversedge.
In 1937, it was enlarged to take in Birkenshaw, Hunsworth,
Hartshead and part of Clifton, and Brighouse and
Spenborough became a parliamentary constituency with 1 member
in the same year.
In 1937, the boundaries were extended to include Lightcliffe and
Hipperholme.
The town was absorbed into Calderdale in 1974
BLACKBURN, MARK
- Abattoir, Brighouse
- Aire Street Co-operative Store, Brighouse
- Albert Place Working Men's Reading Room
- Albert Theatre & Opera House, Brighouse
- Albion Bowling Club, Brighouse
- Alegar Well, Brighouse
- Anchor Bridge, Brighouse
- Anchor Pit Flood Gates, Brighouse
- Anchor Pit Junction, Brighouse
- Anchor Pit, Brighouse
- Armytage Road Industrial Estate, Brighouse
- Ash Grove House, Brighouse
- Assembly Rooms, Brighouse
- Astoria Ballroom, Brighouse
- Atlas Mill Caravan Park, Brighouse
- Baines Square, Brighouse
- Ball flash, Brighouse
- Balmforth's West End Café, Brighouse
- Bank House, Brighouse
- Bankfield, Brighouse
- Belle Vue House, Brighouse
- Berlin Wool Repository, Brighouse
- Mark Blackburn
- The Blakeborough family of Brighouse
- Blakeborough's Bridge, Brighouse
- Blakeborough's Club, Brighouse
- Bonegate Cottage, Brighouse
- Bonegate Hall, Brighouse
- Borough House, Brighouse
- Borough Treasurer: Brighouse
- Bottomley's Lodging House, Brighouse
- The Bow Window, Brighouse
- Brackenholme, Brighouse
- Bradford Road Baths, Brighouse
- Bridge at North Cut, Brighouse
- Bridge Street Bar, Brighouse
- Brighouse 100 years ago
- Brighouse Adult Education Centre
- Brighouse Agricultural Show
- Brighouse Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society
- Brighouse Amateur Pantomime Society
- Brighouse & District General & Penny Savings Bank
- Brighouse & District Cage Bird Society
- Brighouse & District Historical Society
- Brighouse & District Licensed Victuallers' Air Gun & Rifle League
- Brighouse & District Paraffin Oil Deniers' Association
- Brighouse & District Radical Association
- The Brighouse & Elland Echo
- The Brighouse & Elland Express
- The Brighouse & Elland News
- The Brighouse & Elland Register
- Brighouse & Lightcliffe Steam Laundry
- Brighouse & Rastrick Band
- The Brighouse & Rastrick Chronicle
- The Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette
- Brighouse & Rastrick Naturalists' Society
- Brighouse & Rastrick Savings Bank
- Brighouse & Rastrick Temperance Brass Band
- Brighouse & Rastrick Women's Liberal Association
- Brighouse & Spenborough
- Brighouse Angling Association
- Brighouse Anti-Vaccination League
- Brighouse Art Circle
- Brighouse Arts Council
- Brighouse Baths
- Brighouse Bellman's Bawl
- Brighouse Board of Commissioners
- Brighouse Borough
- Brighouse Borough Band
- Brighouse Borough Band Club
- Brighouse Borough Club
- Brighouse Borough Fire Brigade
- Brighouse Borough Magistrates Court
- Brighouse Boundary Walk
- Brighouse Bowling Club
- Brighouse Brass Band & Hymn Tune competition
- Brighouse Brick, Tile & Stone Company Limited
- Brighouse Bridge Club
- Brighouse British Legion Hall
- Brighouse British Restaurant
- Brighouse Bus Station
- Brighouse Cage Bird & Fanciers Society
- Brighouse canal basin
- Brighouse Cemetery: Lodge
- Brighouse Chamber of Commerce
- Brighouse Chamber of Trade
- Brighouse Channel Islands Society
- Brighouse Charity Gala
- Brighouse Choral Society
- Brighouse Church Hockey Club
- Brighouse Church Institute
- Brighouse Church Literary Club
- Brighouse Churchwardens
- Brighouse Civic Trust
- Brighouse Clifton Road Railway Station
- Brighouse Closes
- Brighouse Clothing Society
- Brighouse Coat of Arms
- Brighouse Cocoa House Company Limited
- Brighouse Conservative Club
- Brighouse constables
- Brighouse Co-operative Society
- Brighouse Co-operative Stores, King Street
- Brighouse Cotton Spinning Company Limited
- Brighouse Court Leet
- Brighouse Cricket Club
- Brighouse Crippled Children's Outing Committee
- Brighouse Cycling Club
- The Brighouse Derby
- Brighouse District Industrial Society Limited
- Brighouse Doubling Company Limited
- The Brighouse Echo
- The Brighouse Echo Historical Almanack
- Brighouse Education Society
- Brighouse Electricity Works
- Brighouse Empire
- Brighouse Empire Limited
- Brighouse Engineering Company Limited
- The Brighouse family
- Brighouse Fire Station
- Brighouse Floral Clock
- Brighouse Flour & Industrial Society
- Brighouse Flying Club
- Brighouse (for Bradford) Railway Station
- Brighouse (for Rastrick) Railway Station
- Brighouse Free Church Federal Council
- The Brighouse Free Press
- Brighouse Games League
- Brighouse Gas Company
- Brighouse Gas Works, Mill Lane
- Brighouse Glee & Madrigal Society
- Brighouse Glee Union
- Brighouse Hockey Club
- Brighouse Holiday Week
- Brighouse Horticultural Society
- Brighouse Hospital Demonstration Parade
- Brighouse in old picture postcards
- Brighouse, its Scenery & its Antiquities
- Brighouse Joint Hospital
- Brighouse Labour Club
- Brighouse Labour Exchange
- Brighouse Lads' Club
- Brighouse Lark Singing Association
- Brighouse Laurie Command
- Brighouse Lawn Tennis Club
- Brighouse Liberal Association
- Brighouse Liberal Club
- Brighouse Library
- Brighouse Light Opera Society
- Brighouse Local Board
- Brighouse Lodge of Freemasons
- Brighouse Lower Lock
- Brighouse Lüdenscheid Society
- Brighouse, Manor of
- Brighouse Market
- Brighouse Mechanics' Institute
- Brighouse Mothers' Union
- Brighouse Motor Agency
- Brighouse Museum
- Brighouse Music Club
- Brighouse Musical Festival
- The Brighouse News
- The Brighouse News, Time-table & Advertiser
- Brighouse Nonconformist Council
- Brighouse Nurses' Endowment Fund
- Brighouse Old Market
- Brighouse or Rastrick?
- Brighouse Orchestral Society
- Brighouse Overseers of the Poor
- Brighouse Parish Church History [1831-1981]
- Brighouse parish hall
- Brighouse, Parish of
- Brighouse Park
- Brighouse Penny Bank
- Brighouse Permanent Orchestra
- Brighouse Photographic Society
- Brighouse Pig Fair
- Brighouse Police Court
- Brighouse Police Station
- Brighouse Polling District Liberal Association
- Brighouse Post Office
- Brighouse Public Mortuary
- Brighouse Railway Station
- Brighouse Rangers
- Brighouse Ratepayers' Association
- Brighouse Recreation Ground
- Brighouse Regeneration Forum
- Brighouse Remedial Training Centre
- Brighouse Rest Centre
- Brighouse river crossing
- Brighouse Rotary Club
- Brighouse Rowing Club
- Brighouse rush-bearing
- Brighouse Sanatorium
- Brighouse School Board
- Brighouse Sewage Works
- Brighouse Sewering, Drainage & Lighting Bill [1846]
- Brighouse Skating Club
- Brighouse Soap Company Limited
- Brighouse Socialist Club
- Brighouse Sports Club
- Brighouse Storthes Hall Society
- Brighouse Subscription Hand Bell Ringers
- Brighouse Subscription Library
- Brighouse Swimming Club
- Brighouse Table Tennis League
- Brighouse Telephone Exchange
- Brighouse Temperance Drum & Fife Band
- Brighouse Temperance Society
- Brighouse Territorials
- Brighouse Theatre Productions
- Brighouse town crier
- Brighouse Town Football Club
- Brighouse Town Hall
- Brighouse Town Hall Company Limited
- Brighouse Town History Hunt
- Brighouse Town Pump
- Brighouse Trades Council
- Brighouse Tradesmen's Association
- Brighouse Tradesmen's Cricket Club
- Brighouse Tuesday Cricket Club
- Brighouse Upper Lock
- Brighouse Volunteer Rifle Corps
- Brighouse War Memorial
- Brighouse Ward, Halifax
- Brighouse Waterworks
- Brighouse Wheelers' Club
- Brighouse Wire Wharf
- Brighouse Wireless & Experimental Society
- Brighouse Women's Co-operative Guild
- Brighouse Women's Cricket Club
- Brighouse Wood
- Brighouse Workhouse
- Brighouse Working Men's Reading Room
- Brighouse YMCA
- British Workman House, Brighouse
- Brook Cottage, Brighouse
- Brook House, Brighouse
- Brook House, Brighouse
- Brooke's Almshouses, Brighouse
- Brookfoot Hill
- Brookfoot House, Brighouse
- Brookfoot Lock, Brighouse
- Brookfoot Pleasure Gardens
- Brookfoot Wharf, Brighouse
- Brooklands, Brighouse
- Broom House, Brighouse
- Buildings of Brighouse
- Burton's, Brighouse
- Café Royal, Brighouse
- Caffé Amanté, Brighouse
- Calder Bridge, Brighouse
- Cat Steps, Brighouse
- Church Lane Surgery, Brighouse
- Civic Hall, Brighouse
- Claremont Villas, Brighouse
- Clayton's Central Mart, Brighouse
- Clifton Bridge, Brighouse
- Clifton House, Brighouse
- Colcres House, Brighouse
- Commercial Buildings, Brighouse
- Commercial Iron & Brass Foundry, Brighouse
- Conservative Association for the Brighouse Polling District
- Cottage Baths, Brighouse
- The Cottage Hand Laundry, Brighouse
- Earl Warren's Court
- Cowpen House, Brighouse
- Craven, Pearson & Company Limited, Brighouse
- Croft Cottage, Brighouse
- Cromwell Lock, Brighouse
- Cromwell Wood, Brighouse
- Crooked Riding, Brighouse
- Crossley Dyers, Brighouse
- Daisy Croft Cottages, Brighouse
- Daisy Croft House, Brighouse
- Daisy Croft, Brighouse
- Daisy Mount, Brighouse
- Drill Hall, Brighouse
- Dyers' Club, Brighouse
- Ebor House, Brighouse
- Eclipse Laundry, Brighouse
- Economic Dining Rooms, Brighouse
- Elliker Wood, Brighouse
- Ellwood Lodge, Brighouse
- Elm Cottages, Brighouse
- Elm Royd, Brighouse
- Elm Wood, Brighouse
- Empire Theatre, Brighouse
- Field House, Brighouse
- Fink Hill, Brighouse
- Finkhill, Brighouse
- Finney Farm, Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse
- Five Lane Ends, Brighouse
- Fort Montague, Brighouse
- Freeman's Bridge, Brighouse
- Freeman's Estate, Brighouse
- Freeman's Lodging House, Brighouse
- Freeman's Wood, Brighouse
- Gainsborough Studio, Brighouse
- Ganger Ing, Brighouse
- Ganny Bar, Brighouse
- Ganny Cottage, Brighouse
- Ganny Lock, Brighouse
- Garden House, Brighouse
- Ghosts & Legends of the Lower Calder Valley
- Glenthorne, Brighouse
- Grand Clothing Hall, Brighouse
- Granny Hall farm, Brighouse
- Granny Hall, Brighouse
- Ha'penny Bridge, Brighouse
- Halifax Churchwardens
- Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Brighouse
- Halifax Equitable Benefit Building Society, Brighouse
- Hangram Field, Brighouse
- Hanson House, Brighouse
- Herbal Stores, Brighouse
- Hillard's Supermarket, Brighouse
- Hillside, Brighouse
- Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse & Rastrick Reformers' Association
- Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse Board of Guardians
- Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse Horticultural Society
- Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse Overseers of the Poor
- Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse Workhouse
- History of Brighouse & its Co-operative Society
- History of Brighouse, Rastrick, & Hipperholme
- Holdsworth's Dining Rooms, Brighouse
- Holme House Park, Brighouse
- Holroyd's Buildings, Brighouse
- Houghton House, Brighouse
- Hove Edge
- An Illustrated Account of Halifax, Brighouse & District
- Imperial Café, Brighouse
- Independency at Brighouse
- Indian House, Brighouse
- John King's house, Brighouse
- Keel House, Brighouse
- Kershaw's Garden Centre, Brighouse
- King Street Fent Warehouse, Brighouse
- Kingsway, Brighouse
- Kingwood Grove, Brighouse
- Kirklees Hall, Brighouse
- Kirklees Park, Brighouse
- Kirklees Priory, Brighouse
- Kirklees Toll House, Brighouse
- Kirkley House, Brighouse
- Kirkley, Brighouse
- Lane Head Bar, Brighouse
- Lane Head Co-operative Store, Brighouse
- Lane Head House, Brighouse
- Lane Head Post Office, Brighouse
- Lane Head Recreation Ground, Brighouse
- Lane Head, Brighouse
- Langwood, Brighouse
- Larkfield, Brighouse
- Larkfield, Brighouse
- Laverock Hall Farm, Brighouse
- Laverock Hall, Brighouse
- Laverock House, Brighouse
- The Lees, Brighouse
- Linden House, Brighouse
- Little Smith House Farm, Brighouse
- Lloyds Bank, Brighouse
- The Lodge, Brighouse
- Longroyde Hospital, Brighouse
- Longroyde, Brighouse
- Lord's Dining Rooms, Brighouse
- Lothian House, Brighouse
- Lower Birkhouse Cottage, Brighouse
- Lower Green House, Brighouse
- Lüdenscheid, Germany
- Malt Kiln, Brighouse
- Manor House Farm, Brighouse
- Manor House, Brighouse
- Marsden's Homœopathic Stores, Brighouse
- Martins Bank, Brighouse
- Mayfield, Brighouse
- Maypole Dairy Stores, Brighouse
- Mellor Mint, Brighouse
- Model Lodging House, Brighouse
- Mont Blanc, Brighouse
- Mortuary, Brighouse
- MPs for Brighouse
- NatWest Bank, Brighouse
- Navigation Warehouse, Brighouse
- Needless Hall, Brighouse
- Netheredge, Brighouse
- Netherwood, Brighouse
- Newlands, Rastrick
- Noble Fountains, Brighouse
- North Cut, Brighouse
- Oaklands, Brighouse
- Oakroyd Hall, Birkenshaw
- Oban House, Brighouse
- Oddfellows' Hall, Brighouse
- Old Brighouse
- Old Lock House, Brighouse
- Old Mansion House, Brighouse
- Palace Rink, Brighouse
- Parish Church Cricket Team, Brighouse
- Park Parliament, Brighouse
- Park Tennis Club, Brighouse
- Parker's Café, Brighouse
- Phoenix Bridge, Brighouse
- Phoenix House, Brighouse
- Phoenix House, Brighouse
- Plews of Brighouse
- Pond Farm, Brighouse
- The Poplars, Brighouse
- Pork Pie Villa, Brighouse
- Pratt's Brass Band, Brighouse
- Prospect House, Brighouse
- Purl Well, Brighouse
- Quakers in Brighouse & Rastrick
- Reins Wood, Brighouse
- Reliance Garage, Brighouse
- Renshaws, Brighouse
- Rig-Ma-Down, Brighouse
- The Ritz, Brighouse
- Romney Studio, Brighouse
- The Rookeries, Brighouse
- Rose & Crown Cocoa & Coffee Tavern, Brighouse
- Roundabout House, Brighouse
- Roving Bridge, Brighouse
- Royd House, Brighouse
- Rydal Mount, Brighouse
- Rydings Hall Surgery, Brighouse
- Rydings Hall, Brighouse
- Rydings Park, Brighouse
- The Rydings, Brighouse
- Saint John's Ambulance Association, Brighouse
- Saint John's Ambulance Hall, Brighouse
- Saint Martin's Parsonage, Brighouse
- Savoy Buildings, Brighouse
- Savoy Cinema, Brighouse
- Slead Hall Lodge, Brighouse
- Slead Hall, Brighouse
- Slead House, Brighouse
- Slead Syke Nurseries, Brighouse
- Slead Syke
- Smith Art Gallery & Library, Brighouse
- Smith House Co-operative Store, Brighouse
- Smith Orphanage, Brighouse
- Smithy Carr Lane Co-operative Store, Brighouse
- Smithy Carr Lane Toll Bar, Brighouse
- Spring Cottage, Brighouse
- Spring Villa, Brighouse
- Springfield House, Brighouse
- Squire's Bakery, Brighouse
- Star Bingo Club, Brighouse
- Stardust Showbar, Brighouse
- Stoneleigh, Brighouse
- Sunderland Estate, Brighouse
- Sunwin House, Brighouse
- Tate's Corner, Brighouse
- Tate's of Brighouse
- Tewson Cottages, Brighouse
- Thornfields, Brighouse
- Thornhill Bridge & Ford, Brighouse
- Thornhill Briggs Estate, Brighouse
- Thornhill Briggs Working Men's Club, Brighouse
- Thornhills Pit, Brighouse
- Thornton Square, Brighouse
- Thornton, Hannam & Marshall Limited, Brighouse
- Throstle Nest, Brighouse
- Tilsa Yarns Limited, Brighouse
- Top of Brighouse
- Town & Country Walks around Brighouse
- Town Clerk: Brighouse
- Towser, Brighouse
- Trams & buses: Brighouse
- Triangle, Brighouse
- Triangular Field, Brighouse
- Trinity, Brighouse
- Tropicana Night Club, Brighouse
- Union Bank, Brighouse
- Victoria Free Library, Brighouse
- Victoria Livery Stables, Brighouse
- Vine House, Brighouse
- Wakefield House, Brighouse
- Walker Bingo Hall, Brighouse
- Walnut Cottage, Brighouse
- Waring Green
- Waterloo Brass Band, Brighouse
- Waterloo Fields, Brighouse
- Waterloo Road Allotments, Brighouse
- Waterloo, Brighouse
- Webster's, Brighouse
- Well Close House, Brighouse
- Wellholme Park, Brighouse
- Wellholme, Brighouse
- White House, Brighouse
- White's Nurseries, Brighouse
- Whiteley's Corner, Brighouse
- Wilde's Theatre, Brighouse
- Wilkin Royd House, Brighouse
- Wood's Livery Stables, Brighouse
- Woodbank, Brighouse
- Woodhouse Junior & Infants' School Baths, Brighouse
- Woodleigh, Brighouse
- Woodvale Business Park, Brighouse
- Woolrow Farm, Brighouse
- Woolrow, Brighouse
- Yorkshire Penny Bank: Brighouse
- Zingo Nick, Brighouse
- The Aspinall family of Brighouse
- The Bedford family of Brighouse
- The Blackburn family of Brighouse
- The Cooper family of Brighouse
- The Dean family of Brighouse
- The Gill family of Brighouse
- The Harrison family of Brighouse
- The Kershaw family of Brighouse
- The Pilling family of Brighouse
- The Robinson family of Brighouse
- The Sugden family of Brighouse
See
Population,
Calder Registration District and
Parish statistics
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