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The River Calder is a river in West Yorkshire, in Northern England. The Calder rises on the green eastern slopes of the Pennines flows through alternating green countryside, former woollen-mill villages, and large and small 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, the River Hebble and 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. == Etymology == The name 'Calder' is thought to come from the early Common Brittonic, meaning 'hard or violent water' (the modern Welsh word for hard is "caled"), or possibly from the another Celtic language, meaning 'river of stones'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fact File )〕 Another possible explanation is that it is a corruption of "Gauls' der"; "Gauls" being an ancient form of "Celts" and "der" meaning water. Hence Calder means the Celts' River. This is likely because the moorlands and rugged valleys of upper Calderdale remained a Celtic area for at least two centuries after the surrounding lowlands became dominated by Anglo-Saxon culture. That history is also reflected in the name of a village, Walsden, just inside the border of upper Calderdale, which is probably derived from Wales Dene, or "Valley of the "Welsh" (foreigners)" in Anglo-Saxon. However there are several Calder rivers in Britain, which do not necessarily have the same history. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「River Calder, West Yorkshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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