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HOLMFIRTH

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 618 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOLMFIRTH  , an

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urban
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district in the Holmfirth
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parliamentary
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division of the
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West
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Riding of
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Yorkshire,
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England, on and Holme and the Ribble, 6 m . S. of
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Huddersfield, and on the
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Lancashire and Yorkshire railway . Pop . (1901) 8977 . The valley, walled by bold hills, is very picturesque . In 1852
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great destruction was wrought in the
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town by the bursting of a
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reservoir in the vicinity . The large
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industrial
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population is employed in woollen manufactories, and in the neighbouring
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stone quarries .

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