Community hub
Community hub
Recent from talks
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
River Calder, West Yorkshire
The River Calder (/ˈkɔːldər, ˈkɒl-/) is a river in West Yorkshire, in Northern England.
The Calder rises on Heald Moor in Lancashire close to the source of another river with the same name, and then flows east into West Yorkshire through green countryside, former woollen-mill villages and towns before joining the River Aire near Castleford.
The river's valley is generally known as the Calder Valley. The name Calderdale usually refers to the large urban and rural borough (centred on Halifax) through which the upper river flows. The lower reaches flow through the boroughs of Kirklees (based on Huddersfield) and Wakefield. However, the river does not flow through the centres of Halifax and Huddersfield, which are on the Calder's main tributaries, Hebble Brook and the River Colne respectively. The only large town centres through which the Calder flows are Brighouse, Mirfield, Dewsbury and the city of Wakefield.
The river itself is only navigable in short sections, but these sections are connected by artificial "cuts" (e.g. Horbury Cut) to form the Calder and Hebble Navigation, a popular leisure waterway which is part of the connected inland waterway network of England and Wales.
The word ultimately derives from the Brythonic language, with most scholars agreeing that the name is a compound of two elements related to the Modern Welsh words caled (hard) and dwr (water). However, it is still a subject of debate if the hard element refers to the river's bed, or figuratively to the strength of its currents. As such two separate meanings are commonly derived with 'hard (or violent) water', or river of stones being commonly given translations.
The name 'Calder' is common in Northern Britain, being found in various places across Lancashire and Yorkshire, as well as Calderstones, Liverpool, East Calder and West Calder near Edinburgh and Calderwood near Glasgow, and as the name of the Scottish Clan Calder. The late survival of Celtic speaking peoples in the vicinity of the river Calder is perhaps evidenced in the names of villages such as Walsden, in upper Calderdale, which probably derives from *Walhaz Dene, meaning "Valley of the "Welsh" ('Welsh' being what the Anglo-Saxons called the native Celts who would have spoken Old Welsh).
The river rises approximately 1,300 feet (400 m) above sea level at Heald Moor, north-west of Todmorden, and drains an area of 369 square miles (957 km2). It flows for a distance of around 45 miles (72 km) through Cornholme, Todmorden, Eastwood, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Luddendenfoot, Sowerby Bridge, Copley, Elland, Brighouse, Mirfield, Dewsbury, Horbury Bridge and on to Wakefield.
The catchment lies on Carboniferous rocks of Millstone Grit, and is heavily reservoired, with 39 reservoirs licensed to provide water. The river is joined by Hebden Water at Hebden Bridge, and by the River Ryburn at Sowerby Bridge; it is linked to the town of Rochdale, Greater Manchester across the Pennines via the Rochdale Canal.
Hub AI
River Calder, West Yorkshire AI simulator
(@River Calder, West Yorkshire_simulator)
River Calder, West Yorkshire
The River Calder (/ˈkɔːldər, ˈkɒl-/) is a river in West Yorkshire, in Northern England.
The Calder rises on Heald Moor in Lancashire close to the source of another river with the same name, and then flows east into West Yorkshire through green countryside, former woollen-mill villages and towns before joining the River Aire near Castleford.
The river's valley is generally known as the Calder Valley. The name Calderdale usually refers to the large urban and rural borough (centred on Halifax) through which the upper river flows. The lower reaches flow through the boroughs of Kirklees (based on Huddersfield) and Wakefield. However, the river does not flow through the centres of Halifax and Huddersfield, which are on the Calder's main tributaries, Hebble Brook and the River Colne respectively. The only large town centres through which the Calder flows are Brighouse, Mirfield, Dewsbury and the city of Wakefield.
The river itself is only navigable in short sections, but these sections are connected by artificial "cuts" (e.g. Horbury Cut) to form the Calder and Hebble Navigation, a popular leisure waterway which is part of the connected inland waterway network of England and Wales.
The word ultimately derives from the Brythonic language, with most scholars agreeing that the name is a compound of two elements related to the Modern Welsh words caled (hard) and dwr (water). However, it is still a subject of debate if the hard element refers to the river's bed, or figuratively to the strength of its currents. As such two separate meanings are commonly derived with 'hard (or violent) water', or river of stones being commonly given translations.
The name 'Calder' is common in Northern Britain, being found in various places across Lancashire and Yorkshire, as well as Calderstones, Liverpool, East Calder and West Calder near Edinburgh and Calderwood near Glasgow, and as the name of the Scottish Clan Calder. The late survival of Celtic speaking peoples in the vicinity of the river Calder is perhaps evidenced in the names of villages such as Walsden, in upper Calderdale, which probably derives from *Walhaz Dene, meaning "Valley of the "Welsh" ('Welsh' being what the Anglo-Saxons called the native Celts who would have spoken Old Welsh).
The river rises approximately 1,300 feet (400 m) above sea level at Heald Moor, north-west of Todmorden, and drains an area of 369 square miles (957 km2). It flows for a distance of around 45 miles (72 km) through Cornholme, Todmorden, Eastwood, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Luddendenfoot, Sowerby Bridge, Copley, Elland, Brighouse, Mirfield, Dewsbury, Horbury Bridge and on to Wakefield.
The catchment lies on Carboniferous rocks of Millstone Grit, and is heavily reservoired, with 39 reservoirs licensed to provide water. The river is joined by Hebden Water at Hebden Bridge, and by the River Ryburn at Sowerby Bridge; it is linked to the town of Rochdale, Greater Manchester across the Pennines via the Rochdale Canal.