Brighouse

Brighouse
The former Brighouse Town Hall
Brighouse Show map of Calderdale Brighouse Location within West Yorkshire Show map of West Yorkshire
Population	32,360 (2001)[1] (Brighouse/Rastrick urban area)
OS grid reference	SE135235
• London	150 mi (240 km) SSE
Metropolitan borough	Calderdale
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BRIGHOUSE
Postcode district	HD6
Dialling code	01484
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Calder Valley
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°42′25″N 1°47′38″W / 53.707°N 1.794°W / 53.707; -1.794

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,^[2] 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.^[3] The Brighouse ward of Calderdale Council gave a population of 11,195 at the 2011 Census.^[4] Brighouse has a HD6 postcode.

The name Brighouse (or "Bridge House") originates from a building on (or close to) the bridge over the River Calder. In its early history, it was a hamlet of the nearby village of Rastrick.

Brighouse is twinned with Lüdenscheid in Germany, the link beginning with an exchange by Brighouse Children's Theatre in 1950 followed by a civic twinning charter in 1960.^[5]