Hipperholme Grammar School

Hipperholme Grammar School is a private grammar school in Hipperholme (near Halifax), West Yorkshire, England. It educates pupils between the ages of 3 and 16. Lightcliffe Preparatory School merged with Hipperholme Grammar School in 2003, under the Hipperholme Grammar Schools Foundation, and was subsequently renamed as Hipperholme Grammar Junior School. In 1648 (the date the school classes as its founding year) Matthew Broadley, paymaster to Charles I, endowed a large sum of money to build a school on land donated by Samuel Sunderland of Coley Hall; the school opened on its current site in 1661. Two of the current school houses, Broadley and Sunderland, are named after the founders. In 1783 a new school hall was constructed. Originally an all-boys school, it became private (ISA, AGBIS) in the 1980s and began admitting girls at the same time.

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Hipperholme

Hipperholme is a village in West Yorkshire, England, located between the towns of Halifax and Brighouse in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale.

Hipperholme railway station

Hipperholme railway station served the village of Hipperholme in West Yorkshire, England.

Lightcliffe railway station

Lightcliffe railway station served the village of Lightcliffe in West Yorkshire, England. It was opened in August 1850 and was a victim of the Beeching cuts on 14 June 1965.

Hipperholme and Lightcliffe

Hipperholme and Lightcliffe is an electoral ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in the English county of West Yorkshire. Hipperholme and Lightcliffe lies to the east of the town of Halifax, on the border of the borough of Calderdale with the City of Bradford. It comprises the settlements of Bailiff Bridge, Coley, Hipperholme, Hove Edge, Lightcliffe and Norwood Green, together with the surrounding and intermediate countryside. The whole of the ward is unparished, and is within the Calder Valley parliamentary constituency In the UK Census of 2021, the ward had an area of 10.11 square kilometres (3.90 sq mi) and there were 11,650 people living there. Of these, 20.7% were under 15 and 21.1% were 65 and over; 94.8% classified themselves as White, 2.0% as Asian, and 0.5% as Black; 3.7% were born outside the UK. The ward elects three councillors to Calderdale Council. The ward councillors are currently Joe Atkinson, David Kirton and George Robinson, all of whom are members of the Conservative party.