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ROTHWELL

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 759 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROTHWELL  , an

urban
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district in the
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Normanton
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parliamentary division of the West
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Riding of
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Yorkshire, England, 4 M . S.E. of Leeds . Pop . (1901) 11,702 . The church of the
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Holy Trinity, though largely restored, retains some good Decorated details . Rothwell soon after the
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Conquest was granted as a dependency of the castle of Pontefract to the Lacys, who erected here a baronial residence of which there are slight remains .
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Coal and stone are obtained in the neighbour-hood, and the
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town possesses match-
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works and rope and twine factories in which the majority of the large
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industrial population is employed .

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