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Akroydon, Halifax — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Akroydon is a Victorian model housing scheme at Boothtown in Halifax, designed by George Gilbert Scott for the mill workers of Edward Akroyd.
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Where to stay in Akroydon
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Halifax holds the hotels. Akroydon is housing first, which is exactly what it was built to be, and a stay here means Victorian-era model housing at Boothtown with Bankfield Museum and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum on the doorstep rather than a bar street. The town centre is a short ride.
If you are here for the architecture of George Gilbert Scott or a morning at Bankfield Museum, Akroydon suits, and anyone wanting the shops and stations of Halifax will do better nearer the middle of the town.
About Akroydon
What are the main landmarks in Akroydon?
Two museums sit within reach. Bankfield Museum and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum head the list the record gives Akroydon, and All Souls Church, Halifax stands among the other names it holds. The rest are houses and halls.
Marlborough Hall, Somerset House, Spa House and Mill House carry the domestic names, the Church of St Thomas and St George's Church the dedications, and the Victoria Memorial completes what the record fixes here.
What is the history of Akroydon?
The scheme has a date. George Gilbert Scott designed Akroydon in the Gothic style in 1859 for the workers at the mills of Colonel Edward Akroyd, who had bought the land for the houses four years earlier, in 1855. Model housing was the point.
The result is a Victorian-era model village at Boothtown, set inside Halifax and the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, and the Victoria Memorial and All Souls Church, Halifax are among the named buildings the record sets beside it.
Where is Akroydon?
Akroydon stands at Boothtown in Halifax, part of the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England, with Bankfield Museum among its neighbours.
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Updated September 2026