Here are the origins of the names of 14 towns and villages in Calderdale. Click here to see photos from a night out in Sowerby bridge in the 2000s and here to see pictures showing deserted Calderdale streets as residents stay at home during lockdown.
1. Halifax
The name of Halifax, first recorded in about 1091 as Halyfax, comesfrom the Old English 'halh-gefeaxe', meaning "area of coarse grass in the nook of land".
2. Heptonstall
The name Heptonstall, which is recorded in the Domesday Book, comes from the Old English word Heap (related to Old English High) and Tunstall, 'Farmstead'.
3. Hipperholme
Referredto in the Domesday Book as Hipperholme and Huperun, the town has a name that comes from the name of willow trees, using the word hipper for osier or that the name is derived from Upper holme or Upper home.
4. Mixenden
The name Mixenden derives from the Anglo Saxon 'mixen' (compost or dung heap) and 'den' usually refers to pasture land, or a hollow in the hills.