Borough of Calderdale
Geography
Status:	Metropolitan borough
Region:	Yorkshire and the Humber
Ceremonial County:	West Yorkshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 131st 363.92 km²
Admin. HQ:	Halifax
ONS code:	00CY
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 67th 193,424 532 / km²
Ethnicity:	93.0% White 5.7% S.Asian
Politics
Calderdale Council http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Christine McCafferty, Alice Mahon

Calderdale is a metropolitan district in West Yorkshire, England. Its major settlement is Halifax.

The district is mostly rural and covers part of the Pennines, but there are some industrial towns in the east and some river valleys. Calderdale is named after the River Calder, which runs through it.

Locations

Other places in Calderdale include:

• Brighouse
• Chiserley, Cornholme , Cragg Vale
• Elland
• Gauxholme , Greetland
• Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall, Holywell Green
• Illingworth
• Luddenden , Luddenden Foot
• Midgeley , Mill Bank , Mixenden , Mount Tabor, Mytholm , Mytholmroyd
• Ogden , Old Town, Ovenden
• Pellon , Portsmouth
• Ripponden, Rishworth
• Savile Park , Skircoat Green , Sowerby, Sowerby Bridge, Sowood Green , Stainland
• Todmorden, Triangle
• Wainstalls , Walsden , Warley Town , West Vale , Wholestone Hill

History

The district was formed on April 1, 1974 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.