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FEATHERSTONE , an See also:urban See also:district in the Osgoldcross See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:West See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, 6 m . E. of See also:Wakefield on the See also:Lancashire & Yorkshire railway . Pop . (1901) 12,093 . The See also:industrial See also:population is employed in large collieries in the vicinity; and here, on the 7th of See also:September 1893, serious riots during a strike resulted in the destruction of some of the colliery See also:works belonging to See also:Lord See also:Masham, and were not quelled without military intervention and some See also:blood-See also:shed . |
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