Boothtown
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.[citation needed] The longest running Boys' Brigade Company in Calderdale is based at Boothtown.[citation needed] Boothtown is the home of Saint John the Baptist Serbian Orthodox church.