page_title: Halifax, West Yorkshire
section_title: Governance
hierarchical_section_title: Halifax, West Yorkshire / Governance
caption_attribution_description: Town Hall, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.
context_page_description: Halifax is a historic market, mill and minster town in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre of the borough. In the fifteenth century the town attracted fleeing cloth workers from the Spanish Netherlands who brought their state-of-the-art machinery with them and the town became an economic hub of the old West Riding of Yorkshire, primarily in woollen manufacture. From New Year's Day 1779 manufacturers and mercers dealt internationally in such articles through its grandiose square, the Piece Hall. Halifax is known for Mackintosh's chocolate and toffee products including Rolo and Quality Street. The Halifax Bank was founded and has large offices in the town. Dean Clough, one of the largest textile factories in the world at more than ¹⁄₂ mile long, is today a converted building for hotel, office and retail use including a gym, theatre, Travelodge and radio station, north of the town centre.
context_section_description: The ancient parish of Halifax was divided into a large number of civil parishes in the 19th century. In Halifax, a body of improvement commissioners or town trustees was created between 1762 and 1823, and the town became a borough constituency under the Great Reform Act of 1832. Halifax was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1848 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and, with the passing of the Local Government Act 1888, became a county borough in 1889. Since 1974, Halifax has been the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire.
caption: Halifax Town Hall
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