ELLAND, an urban district in Yorkshire, England, on the river Calder, 22 m. S. of Halifax by the L.M.S. railway. Pop. (1931), 10,327. It is situated on the south bank of the Calder, on gently sloping ground, which rises steeply away from the town to an altitude of Boo feet. A col in the high land is used by a road which communicates with Huddersfield, Brighouse and Oldham. Communication is also effected with Halifax by road along the valley bottom and by the Calder canal. The Church of St. Mary is Decorated and Perpendicular.
Cotton mills, woollen factories, ironworks, flagstone quarries at Elland Edge, and fireclay works employ the industrial popu lation.