Greetland is a small village in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. The appropriate Calderdale Ward is called Greetland and Stainland. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 11,389. It is located 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Elland and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Halifax. In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Greetland like this: