Brighouse, West Riding

Description
Brighouse, a town and an ecclesiastical parish in Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse township, in the W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the river Calder, 4 1/2 miles ESE of Halifax, and has a station on the L. & Y.R. It has a head post, money order, and telegraph office, and fairs are held on 9 Aug. and 15 Oct. Trade is carried on in silk, cotton, woollen, and worsted manufactures, in malt and card making, flour mills, and in the working and exporting of building-stone. The population of the urban sanitary district is 10,276. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Wakefield; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Halifax. The church is a modem Gothic edifice, built at a cost of £3515. There are also a chapel of ease, erected in 1874, and a Roman Catholic and five dissenting chapels. The town, which has grown considerably in recent years, was incorporated with Rastrick and Hove Edge in 1893. There is a large town-hall, which contains an assembly room to hold 1000, a mechanics' institute, news-room, &c., a cemetery formed in 1874, and a police station. Three newspapers are published.