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SOWERBY BRIDGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 523 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOWERBY
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BRIDGE  , an
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urban
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district in the
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Sowerby
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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, 3 m . S.W. of
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Halifax by the
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Lancashire & Yorkshire railway . It is situated on both sides of the
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river
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Calder, at the termination of the
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Rochdale
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canal .
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Christ
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Church, dating from 1526, was rebuilt in 1819 . The
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town is almost entirely a growth of the second
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half of the 19th
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century . It possesses worsted and
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cotton
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mills,
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iron
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works, dye works and chemical works . The
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separate urban district of Sowerby adjoins to the
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south-west . Pop . (1901), Sowerby
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Bridge, 11,4.77; Sowerby, 3653 .

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