Description

Hipperholme is a village in the Calderdale area of West Yorkshire, England, located between the towns of Halifax and Brighouse. The appropriate Calderdale Ward is called Hipperholme and Lightcliffe. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 11,308. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is located on the busy A58 road and includes Hipperholme Grammar School, a local private school. It is mentioned in the Penguin edition of Domesday book both as Hipperholme and as Huperun index page 1358 and text page 868 where the king had two carucates (an area of land used for taxation purposes which could notionally be ploughed by an eight-ox team.)