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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 101 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAWORTH  , an

urban
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district in the Keighley
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parliamentary division of the West
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Riding of
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Yorkshire, England, ro m . N.W. of Bradford, on a branch of the Midland railway . Pop . (1901), 7492 . It is picturesquely situated on a steep slope, lying high, and surrounded by moorland . The Rev . Patrick Bronte (d.1861) was incumbent here for
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forty-one years, and a memorial near the west window of St Michael's church bears his name and the names of his gifted daughters upon it . The
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grave of
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Charlotte and Emily Bronte is also marked by a brass . In 1895 a museum was opened by the Bronte society . There is a large worsted industry .

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