Hipperholme, a village and a township in Halifax parish, West Riding Yorkshire. The village stands on an eminence, adjacent to the Bradford and Halifax section of the L. & Y.R., 2 miles NE of Halifax, commands fine views of the surrounding country, is included in the ecclesiastical parish of Coley, and has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Halifax. The township contains a portion of Brighouse, and the hamlets of Lightcliffe, Coley, and Hove Edge, and bears the name of Hipperholme-withBrighouse. Acreage, 2598; population, 15,571. Brighonse, Lightcliffe, and Coley are ecclesiastical parishes. The great increase of population is due to the prosperity of manufactures and the facilities of communication. There are worsted and woollen manufactories, collieries, quarries, and a tannery. There are also Congregational and Wesleyan chapels, and a grammar school, which was founded in 1648 and reconstituted in 1880.

Stansfield, a township of three divisions—viz., Lower, Middle, and Upper Third—in Halifax parish, W. K. Yorkshire, on the river Galder and the Rochdale Canal, with a station at Eastwood on the L. & Y.K., 10 miles W of Halifax. The township comprises the ecclesiastical parish, of Harley Wood, part of the ecclesiastical parish of Cross Stones, and also Backshawhead, Eastwood, Holmbridge, and parts of Hebdeu Bridge and Mytholmroyd. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office at Eastwood under Todmorden. Acreage, 6331; population, 11,266. Much of the land is moor. Cotton-spinning, bobbin-making, and ironfounding are carried on. There are two churches, and Baptist, Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.