DEWSBURY  , a

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