Brighouse Corporation Act 1895
WHEREAS by royal charter dated the tenth day of August in the fifty-seventh year of the reign of Her Majesty the Queen (1893) the area described or referred to in the charter and comprising the local government districts of Brighouse and Rastrick and that part of the rural sanitary district of the Halifax Poor Law Union known as Hove Edge, all in the west riding of the county of York were created a municipal borough by the name of the borough of Brighouse and the same is now under the managem...