{{short description|Suburb of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England}} {{distinguish|Boothstown}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2015}} {{Infobox UK place | 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}} | pushpin_map = United Kingdom Calderdale | 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<!-- straight line per MOS – constant and comparable with other place distances --> | london_direction = SSE }} '''Boothtown''' is a suburb of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, which 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.<ref>{{NHLE|desc=OLD LANE MILL RAWSON'S MILL|num=1244144|date = 12 April 1994|accessdate=7 May 2018}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{NHLE|date = 3 November 1954|num= 1211183|desc= BANKFIELD MUSEUM AND SCREEN WALL TO FORECOURT |accessdate= 10 January 2015}}</ref>
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 United Methodist Church in Simpson Street to worship in. Closed in the 1950s, it was acquired by the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1952. The building, which had already deteriorated, was repaired and renovated, and was consecrated on 26 September 1954.<ref>{{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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627190511/http://st-johnthebaptistchurch-halifax.org.uk/page2.html|archive-date=27 June 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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