Brighouse (pronounced ''Brig-ouse'', the ''h'' being silent) is a town within the Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Calder, West Yorkshire, east of Halifax, West Yorkshire in the Pennines. It is served by Junction 25 of the M62 motorway and Brighouse railway station on the Caldervale Line and Huddersfield Line. In the town centre is a mooring basin on the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The United Kingdom Census 2001 gave the Brighouse / Rastrick urban area population as 32,360.
The name Brighouse (or"Bridge House") originates from a building on (or close to) the bridge over the River Calder. In its early history, it was a hamlet (place) of the nearby village of Rastrick.
Brighouse is sister cities with Lüdenscheid in Germany, the link beginning with an exchange by Brighouse Children's Theatre in 1950 followed by a civic twinning charter in 1960.
