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OSSETT

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OSSETT  , a municipal

borough in the Morley
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parliamentary division of the West
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Riding of
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Yorkshire, England, 3 M . W. of Wakefield, on the
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Great
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Northern and (Horbury and Ossett station) the
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Lancashire and Yorkshire
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railways . Pop . (1901) 12,903 . It includes the contiguous townships of Ossett, South Ossett and Gawthorpe . The church of the
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Holy Trinity, a
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fine cruciform structure in the Early Decorated style, was erected in 1865 . Woollen
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cloth mills, and extensive collieries in the neighbourhood, employ the large
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industrial population . There are medicinal springs similar in their properties to those of
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Cheltenham . The municipal borough, incorporated in 189o, is under a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors .
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Area 3238 acres .

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