Brighouse
Brighouse is a town in the
county of
West Yorkshire,
England, 4m (6km) east of
Halifax, England, in the
Pennines, and on the
River Calder. The town's name is said to have come from a building on (or close to) the bridge over the Calder. The river provided power for the flour milling industry and the textile mills. Brighouse's industry received a boost through the construction of the
Calder and Hebble Navigation, started in
1757 by the
engineer John Smeaton.
Two churches in Brighouse have stained glass from the William Morris factory, designed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and Edward Burne-Jones.