Calderdale
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| Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale | |
| Geography | |
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| Status: | Metropolitan borough |
| Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Admin. County: | West Yorkshire |
| Area: Total: |
Ranked 115th 363.9 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Halifax |
| ONS code: | 00CY |
| Demographics | |
| Population: Total (2007 est.): Density: |
Ranked 77th 200,100 550 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 91.1% White 6.8% S.Asian 1.0% Mixed[1] |
| Politics | |
Calderdale Council http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/ |
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| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Conservative (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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Local government
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
- Mayors of Calderdale
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[edit] References
- ^ "Resident Population Estimates by Ethnic Group (Percentages); Mid-2005 Population Estimates". National Statistics Online. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=276808&c=calderdale&d=13&e=13&g=380096&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1206653935984&enc=1&dsFamilyId=1812. Retrieved on 2008-03-28.
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