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

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