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Introduction

Calderdale's architecture offers a fascinating insight into local heritage, industry, and social history. Among many other impressive buildings, the town of Halifax boasts the unique Square Chapel and Somerset House, while in the west, Todmorden Town Hall is a fine example of Victorian municipal architecture.

Local pubs and inns have always been important to town and village life and to travellers. Sometimes they were used for more unexpected purposes, and one of the district's first libraries was in the Lord Nelson Inn at Luddenden. Another leisure activity, cinema-going, has continued in Hebden Bridge with the survival, sometimes against the odds, of the 1920s' Picture House.

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