ECCLESFIELD
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Originally appearing in Volume
V08,
Page 847
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ECCLESFIELD
, a township in the Hallamshire See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:West See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, 5 M
.
N. of See also:Sheffield, on the See also:Great Central and Midland See also:railways
.
The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Mary is Perpendicular, with a central See also:tower, and contains excellent woodwork
.
It formerly See also:bore, and must have deserved, the See also:familiar See also:title of the " See also:Minster of the See also:Moors." Ecclesfield was the seat of a See also:Benedictine priory, which passed to the See also:Carthusians in the 14th See also:century
.
See also:Cutlery and tools are largely manufactured, and there are See also:coal-mines, See also:paper See also:mills and See also:iron and See also:fire-See also:clay See also:works
.
After the inclusion within the See also:county See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of Sheffield of See also:part of the See also:civil See also:parish of Ecclesfield in 1901, the See also:population was 18,324
.
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