Visit Hipperholme Places

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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Hipperholme

  

Hipperholme Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Hipperholme

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Hipperholme history

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Hipperholme is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Huperun. Historically it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The township also included nearby Brighouse, Lightcliffe, and Hove Edge.

Hipperholme geography / climate

Hipperholme is located at the crossroads of A58 road and A644 road, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Halifax town centre at a height of about 522 feet (159 m) a.s.l. (Christ Church) Lightcliffe is a village immediately east of Hippersholme. The boundary between the two is blurred, as there are places named after Lightcliffe.

You can visit Hipperholme places with Walkfo Hipperholme to hear history at Hipperholme’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Hipperholme has 58 places to visit in our interactive Hipperholme map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Hipperholme, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Hipperholme places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Hipperholme & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 58 audio facts unique to Hipperholme places in an interactive Hipperholme map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Hipperholme Places Map
58 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Hipperholme tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Hipperholme

  

Best Hipperholme places to visit

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Hipperholme has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Hipperholme’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Hipperholme’s information audio spots:

Eureka! (museum) Eureka! The National Children’s Museum is an interactive educational museum for children in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, with a focus on learning through play. It is run as an educational charity and not-for-profit organisation. Eureka! is based on the North American model of children’s museums, aimed at families with children aged 0–11 and encourages hands-on inter-generational learning.

Borough Market, Halifax Borough Market is a Victorian covered market in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. The market occupies a town centre site between Southgate, Albion Street and Market Street. The glass and wrought iron covered marketplace, surrounded by stone built shops and accommodation, was built between 1891 and 1896 and opened by the future King George V and Queen Mary. The design included three public houses on the Market Street side and fishmongers’ shops on Albion Street with the remaining exterior shops all being butchers’ shops. The award-winning market is open six days a week with some 125 market stalls.

St Mary’s Church, Halifax St Mary’s Church or St Marie’s Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Halifax, West Yorkshire. It was built from 1836 to 1839. It is situated on the corner of Gibbet Street and Clarence Street, next to Burdock Way.

High Sunderland Hall High Sunderland Hall was a manor house, built c. 1600 just outside Halifax, West Yorkshire. It was demolished in 1951 after falling into dereliction. The house is perhaps best known for having supposedly provided Emily Brontë with her description of Wuthering Heights.

Buttershaw Buttershaw is a residential area of Bradford, West Yorkshire. It is bounded by Horton Bank Top to the north, Wibsey to the east, Woodside to the south and Shelf to the west. It consists mostly of 1940s council housing with the building starting in 1947 and continuing until the 1960s. It gained notoriety in 1986 when it was featured as the setting for most of the scenes in the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too.

The Shay Halifax Town football and Halifax Panthers rugby league clubs both play home games at the Shay. The North and South stands were built in the mid-1990s. The Shay lies on the south side of Halifax, about a quarter of a mile from the town centre.

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