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DEWSBURY , a marketSee also: town and municipal and See also: parliamentary See also: borough in the West See also: Riding of See also: Yorkshire, See also: England, on the See also: river See also: Calder, 8 m
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S.S.W. of See also: Leeds, on the See also: Great See also: Northern, See also: London & See also: North-Western, and See also: Lancashire & Yorkshire See also: railways
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Pop
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(1901) 28,060
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The parish See also: church of All
See also: Saints was for the most See also: part rebuilt in the latter See also: half of the 18th century; the portions still preserved of the See also: original structure are mainly Early See also: English
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The chief See also: industries are the making of blankets, carpets, druggets and worsted See also: yarn ; and there are iron foundries and machinery See also: works
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See also: Coal is worked in the neighbourhood
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The parliamentary borough includes the adjacent municipal borough of See also: Batley, and returns one member
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The municipal borough, incorporated in 1862, is under a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors
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See also: Area, 1471 acres
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Paulinus, first archbishop of See also: York, about the See also: year 627 preached in the See also: district of Dewsbury, where Edwin, See also: king of Northumbria, whom he converted to
See also: Christianity, had a royal mansion
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At Kirklees, in the parish, are remains of a Cistercian convent of the 12th century, in an extensive See also: park, where tradition relates that See also: Robin See also: Hood died and was buried
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