Halifax,_West_Yorkshire

Halifax () is a town in Calderdale (the metropolitan borough's administrative centre), West Yorkshire, England. It is near the east Pennine foothills.
In the 15th century, the town became an economic hub of the old West Riding of Yorkshire, primarily in woollen manufacture with the large Piece Hall square later built for trading wool in the town centre. The town was a thriving mill town during the Industrial Revolution with the Dean Clough Mill buildings a surviving landmark. In 2011, it had a population of 88,134.