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ECCLESFIELD , a township in the Hallamshire See also: parliamentary division of the West See also: Riding of See also: Yorkshire, See also: England, 5 M
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N. of Sheffield, on the See also: Great Central and Midland See also: railways
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The See also: church of St Mary is Perpendicular, with a central tower, and contains excellent woodwork
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It formerly
See also: bore, and must have deserved, the See also: familiar title of the " Minster of the Moors." Ecclesfield was the seat of a See also: Benedictine priory, which passed to the See also: Carthusians in the 14th century
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Cutlery and tools are largely manufactured, and there are See also: coal-mines, paper mills and iron and fire-See also: clay See also: works
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After the inclusion within the county See also: borough of Sheffield of See also: part of the See also: civil parish of Ecclesfield in 1901, the population was 18,324
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