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OS grid reference	SE088269
• London	150 mi (240 km) SSE
Metropolitan borough	Calderdale
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HALIFAX
Postcode district	HX3
Dialling code	01422
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Halifax
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°44′20″N 1°52′05″W / 53.739°N 1.868°W / 53.739; -1.868

Boothtown is a suburb of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, which falls within Town Ward, one of the 17 wards of Calderdale.

Its history was dominated by the mills of the textile industry. Rawson's Mill on Old Lane is now disused and designated as a listed building of heritage importance.

Boothtown includes Akroydon, a Victorian model housing scheme which was designed in the Gothic style by George Gilbert Scott in 1859 for the workers at the mills of Edward Akroyd. Akroyd's former home in Boothtown, now the Grade II listed Bankfield Museum and library, also houses the Regimental museum of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment.

Boothtown is situated on the A647 road from Halifax to Bradford. It was on this road that Percy Shaw came up with the idea of cat's eyes as an aid to road safety. The longest running Boys' Brigade Company in Calderdale is based at Boothtown.

Boothtown is the home of Saint John the Baptist Serbian Orthodox church. There has been a Serbian community in the area since the 1940s, when Serbian POWs and anti-Communist refugees from German camps arrived in Halifax in 1947. They needed a place to worship and were given a former United Methodist Church in Simpson Street to worship in. Closed in the 1950s, it was acquired by the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1952. The building, which had already deteriorated, was repaired and renovated, and was consecrated on 26 September 1954.

References

1. Historic England (12 April 1994). "OLD LANE MILL RAWSON'S MILL (1244144)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
2. Historic England (3 November 1954). "BANKFIELD MUSEUM AND SCREEN WALL TO FORECOURT (1211183)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
3. "History of St John the Baptist Orthodox Church Halifax". Official website. Archived from the original on 27 June 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2014.

External links

• Media related to Boothtown at Wikimedia Commons

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