Thornhills is a hamlet in the Calderdale district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It is near the town of Brighouse. In 2023, Calderdale Council adopted a plan to build 3,000 new homes on land at Thornhills and Woodhouse. The new development has been dubbed "Thornhills Garden Community".

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Bailiff Bridge

Bailiff Bridge is a village 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north from Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England, and is 5 miles (8 km) from Huddersfield and 7 miles (11 km) from Bradford. Bailiff Bridge lies in the unparished area of the borough of Calderdale, who are responsible for all local government activity in the village and surrounding areas. It lies in the borough ward of Hipperholme and Lightcliffe and the parliamentary constituency of Calder Valley. As a village in an unparished area, there are no formal civil parish boundaries defining Bailiff Bridge, but mapping shows it as adjoining the settlements of Lightcliffe to the west, and Brighouse to the south. The village is centred on the A649 and A641 roads which connect it to nearby towns and cities. The village was served by Bailiff Bridge railway station on the Pickle Bridge Line between 1881 and 1917. One of the main employers in the village was Firth's Carpets. Notable residents from the village are Danny and Richard McNamara from the band Embrace, who grew up in the village.
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Clifton Road railway station

Clifton Road was a railway station built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to serve the village of Clifton north east of Brighouse in West Yorkshire, England.
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Brighouse bus station

Brighouse bus station serves the town of Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England. The bus station is owned and managed by West Yorkshire Metro. The bus station is situated in the Brighouse Town Centre and could be accessed from Gooder Street and Ganny Road. The current station was opened from 10 May 2009 on the site of the previous one that dates back from the 1970s. The new bus station cost £2.38 million and provides passengers with more comfortable and safer enclosed waiting areas, new seating and lighting, real time electronic passenger information, 24-hour CCTV surveillance and additional footpaths and pedestrian access It has six stands.
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Clifton, West Yorkshire

Clifton is a village on the eastern outskirts of Brighouse in the Calderdale district of West Yorkshire, England.