Mount Tabor, West Yorkshire

Mount Tabor is a village in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, named after the biblical Battle of Mount Tabor mentioned in the Book of Judges. It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) north-west from Halifax town centre. The village is in the Warley ward of Calderdale. The village is served by buses from Halifax bus station.

A post box in the village is painted gold, to commemorate one of Hannah Cockroft's 2012 Summer Paralympics gold medals. The author Whiteley Turner lived in Mount Tabor.

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Luddenden

Luddenden is a district of Calderdale 3.1 miles (5 km) west of Halifax on the Luddenden Brook in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

Fountainhead Village

Fountainhead is a hamlet in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, built on the old site of the Webster's Brewery at the turn of the 21st century. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3 km) north-west from Halifax town centre. The hamlet is in the Warley ward of Calderdale. Founded in 2004, developer David Wilson Homes started developing a new sustainable village on the brownfield site. Completed in 2018 with over 300 houses and an estimated population of 800, it has one public house, Long Can Hall, which has been used for filming Last Tango in Halifax. The Maltings College opened in 2013 and offered a range of vocational sixth form courses until its closure in 2018. The former site was a nursery school until its closure in 2018. Subsequently, Trinity Multi Academy Trust took over the building as its administrative head office and training centre. The village has two parks and backs onto Ovenden Wood and has beer-themed names for roads, such as Cask Court, Maltings Road, and Golding Hop Close. The former professional rugby league footballer Wilf George lives in the village. The hamlet is served by buses from Halifax bus station. The disused Halifax High-Level Railway skirts the northern end of the village, with the Signal View development area built on the site of the old Maltings Brewery Goods Yard.

The Maltings College

The Maltings College is a free school sixth form in Fountainhead, near Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Established in 2013, The Maltings College is located at the former site of Webster's Brewery. Until its closure in 2018, the college offers a range of vocational qualifications at levels 1 to 3. Areas of instruction include: Barbering Beauty therapy Business Catering Childcare Hairdressing Health and social care IT betworking Motor vehicle maintenance Sport

Wainstalls

Wainstalls is a village near Halifax, in the Calderdale district of West Yorkshire, England. The area is rural and much of the area is farmland. Wainstalls is in the HX postcode area and in the HX2 postcode district and the Luddendenfoot ward of Calderdale Council. The area contains Wainstalls School, where Hannah Cockroft, a British paralympian who won two golds at The London 2012 Paralympic Games, studied. The two pubs in Wainstalls are The Crossroads Inn and The Cat-I-th'Well. Wainstalls currently has a factory right in the centre which currently homes Heights (UK) Ltd. In the late nineteenth century, the mill owner, James Calvert, arranged for 250 orphans from Liverpool to come and work in his mill. According to a local historian they were well-treated and descendants of them still live in the area. They became known as the Wainstall waifs.