Calderdale

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Geography
Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale

Status:	Metropolitan borough
Region:	Yorkshire and the Humber
Admin. County:	West Yorkshire
Area: Total:	Ranked 131st 363.92 km²
Admin. HQ:	Halifax
ONS code:	00CY
Demographics
Population: Total (2007 est.): Density:	Ranked 69th 200,100 550 / km²
Ethnicity:	91.1% White 6.8% S.Asian 1.0% Mixed^[1]
Politics
Calderdale Council http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/

Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	TBA (council NOC)
MPs:	Christine McCafferty, Linda Riordan

The Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale is a metropolitan borough of the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, England, through which the upper part of the River Calder flows, and from which it takes its name. Its largest and most populous settlement is Halifax.

The district is mostly rural and covers part of the South Pennines, but there are some industrial towns in the east and some river valleys.

Signpost in Calderdale

1 History
2 Locations
3 Local government
4 References
5 External links

History

The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the county borough of Halifax, the boroughs of Brighouse, Todmorden and the urban districts of Elland, Hebden Royd, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge, and part of Queensbury and Shelf urban district, and also Hepton Rural District.

Locations

Other places in Calderdale include:

Barkisland, Boothtown, Beechwood, Brighouse
Chiserley, Clifton, Copley, Cornholme, Cragg Vale
Eastwood, Elland
Gauxholme, Greetland
Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall, Hipperholme, Holywell Green
Illingworth
Lightcliffe, Luddenden, Luddendenfoot
Midgley, Mill Bank, Mixenden, Mount Tabor, Mytholm, Mytholmroyd
Northowram
Ogden, Old Town, Ovenden
Pellon, Portsmouth
Rastrick, Ripponden, Rishworth
Savile Park, Shelf, Skircoat Green, Siddal, Sowerby, Sowerby Bridge, Southowram, Sowood, Stainland
Todmorden, Triangle
Wainstalls, Walsden, Warley Town, West Vale, Wholestone Hill

Local government

See also: Calderdale local elections

The borough is divided into 17 wards and each is represented on the borough council by three councillors. Each councillor is normally elected on a first past the post basis for a four-year period which is staggered with the other councillors of that ward so that only one councillor per ward is up for election at any one time. Exceptions to this include by-elections and ward boundary changes.

The seventeen wards in Calderdale are: Brighouse; Calder; Elland; Greetland and Stainland; Hipperholme and Lightcliffe; Illingworth and Mixenden; Luddendenfoot; Northowram and Shelf; Ovenden; Park; Rastrick; Ryburn; Skircoat; Sowerby Bridge; Todmorden; Town; and Warley