Landmarks
- The Piece Hall is the former cloth hall, where the trading of woollen cloth pieces was done. Opened on 1 January 1779, it was only open for business for two hours on a Saturday morning and contained 315 merchant trading rooms. After the mechanisation of the cloth industry, the Piece Hall became a public market. The Piece Hall is now host to many arts. crafts and alternative shops. The former Calderdale Industrial Museum (now closed) was located beside the Piece Hall.
- Dean Clough Mill located beside the Victorian Gothic Revival North Bridge was built in the 1840s–60s for Crossley's Carpets, owned by John Crossley and was once the largest carpet factory in the world. It is now a thriving business park after being converted in the 1980s.
- Halifax Town Hall was designed by Charles Barry, who also designed the Houses of Parliament, in 1863.
- Borough Market is an award winning Victorian covered market place in the town centre.
- The Wainhouse Tower, at King Cross, is a late Victorian folly constructed between 1871 - 1875. Originally intended to be the chimney for a dye works, it became a folly after the dye works was sold in 1874 and the new owner refused to pay for its completion. It is the tallest folly in the world and the tallest structure in Calderdale.
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