Brighouse
Brighouse is a town within the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England.
Brighouse is a town within the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated on the River Calder, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Halifax. It is served by Junction 25 of the M62 motorway and Brighouse railway station on the Caldervale Line and Huddersfield Line. In the town centre is a mooring basin on the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The United Kingdom Census 2001 gave the Brighouse / Rastrick subdivision of the West Yorkshire Urban Area a population of 32,360. The Brighouse ward of Calderdale Council had a population of 11,195 at the 2011 Census. Brighouse has an HD6 postcode, despite being associated with Halifax for local government.
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Worth seeing in and around Brighouse
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Grade I listed building in Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Brighouse
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 20 km · Manchester (MAN), 51 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 81 km
- Stations
- Halifax railway station, 4.2 km · Brighouse railway station, 1.4 km · Low Moor railway station, 5.5 km · Deighton railway station, 5.1 km · Lightcliffe railway station, 2 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Brighouse39 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £4.5–6
- Liverpool → Brighouse85 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–12
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Brighouse93 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £10–14
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Brighouse
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Brighouse. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Brighouse – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Brighouse
Brighouse is 10 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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