| 词条 | Boothtown |
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|country = England |static_image_name = Bankfield Museum, Akroyd Park - geograph.org.uk - 349938.jpg |static_image_caption = Bankfield Museum |coordinates = {{coord|53.739|-1.868|display=inline,title}} |official_name = Boothtown |population = |metropolitan_borough = Calderdale |metropolitan_county = West Yorkshire |region = Yorkshire and the Humber |constituency_westminster = Halifax |post_town = HALIFAX |postcode_district = HX3 |postcode_area = HX |dial_code = 01422 |os_grid_reference = SE088269 |london_distance_mi = 150 |london_direction = SSE }} Boothtown is a suburb of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Boothtown 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.[1] 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.[2] 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.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} The longest running Boys' Brigade Company in Calderdale is based at Boothtown.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} 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 Methodist chapel in Simpson Street to worship in. Closed in the 1950s, it was acquired by the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1952. The building, by then in a dilapidated state, was renovated and consecrated on 26 September 1954.[3] References1. ^{{NHLE|desc=OLD LANE MILL RAWSON'S MILL|num=1244144|accessdate=7 May 2018}} 2. ^{{NHLE|num= 1211183|desc= BANKFIELD MUSEUM AND SCREEN WALL TO FORECOURT |accessdate= 10 January 2015}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.st-johnthebaptistchurch-halifax.org.uk/page2.html|title=History of St John the Baptist Orthodox Church Halifax|publisher=Official website|accessdate=26 November 2014}} External links
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