Sowood, West Yorkshire

{{notability|date=May 2024}}

{{Short description|Village in West Yorkshire, England}}

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{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=April 2020}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| official_name = Sowood

| coordinates = {{coord|53.662045|-1.880791|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_map = United Kingdom Calderdale

| map_type = West Yorkshire

| population =

| civil_parish = Stainland and District

| metropolitan_borough = Calderdale

| metropolitan_county = West Yorkshire

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| constituency_westminster = Calder Valley

| post_town = HALIFAX

| postcode_district = HX4

| postcode_area = HX

| dial_code = 01422

| os_grid_reference = SE079184

| static_image = Sowood.jpg

| static_image_width = 237px

| static_image_caption = View over Sowood from Sowood Hill

}}

Sowood is a village in the civil parish of Stainland and District, in the Calderdale district of West Yorkshire, England. The village is in the Greetland and Stainland ward of Calderdale Council. It is {{Convert|2.3|mi|km}} south-west of Elland, {{Convert|4.1|mi|km}} north-west of Huddersfield{{cite book|last1=Aslet |first1=Clive|author1-link=Clive Aslet|title=Villages of Britain The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside|date=15 August 2011|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=9781408817995|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Villages_of_Britain/EevCB9br6F4C?hl=en&gbpv=0}} and {{Convert|4.2|mi|km}} south of Halifax.