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Holdsworth House Hotel
Holdsworth House is a grand 17th century jacobean manor house standing 3 miles north of Halifax. The imaginative use of colour, fabrics gives each bedroom a character of it's own. Several rooms have four poster beds, and the four split-level suites have a sitting room and bathroom on the ground floor and a pretty galleried bedroom above.
The legendary textile town of Halifax is no longer a cluster of mills and cloth caps squeezed into an industrialised valley, but a progressive, ambitious centre of development which has one eye on its heritage and another on its potential.
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Did You Know?
The Piece Hall, a visually striking reminder of the town's heyday as a wool centre, is a classic example of the way Halifax - historically known as "the town of a hundred trades" - has moved with the times. It was built in 1779 to accommodate more than 300 merchants' rooms. Saved from demolition by a single vote in 1972, the Hall has now become a major landmark for very different reasons - as a centre for trendy cafe bars and contemporary retail outlets.
The Victorian Borough Market which dominates the town centre, the Bankfield Museum, home to one of the finest costume and textile displays in the country, the once derelict Victorian mill of Dean Clough which was transformed into a complex for commerce, industry and the arts, and the Calderdale Industrial Museum which rumbles into life to offer a glimpse into the noisy, mechanical world of the working mill, all contribute to the reshaping of Halifax's image. So, too, do the retired Judge James Pickles, Prince Charles and Britain's biggest building society.