. The earth and its inhabitants ... mpor-tance by Leeds and Bradford, Halifax nevertheless remains one of the most interest-ing and picturesque towns of Yorkshire. It is one of the chief seats of the worstedand carpet trades. Huddersfiekl is a well-built town on the Colne, which joins theCalder from the south. It carries on the manufacture of woollens, cottons, and 258 THE BRITISH ISLES. machinery. In its neighbourhood are foundries, quarries, and coal mines. Thosmaller towns dependent upon it—such as Gokar, Linthwaite, Melt ham, and Wooldale—enp;ag:c in the same industries. Once more returnin
. The earth and its inhabitants ... mpor-tance by Leeds and Bradford, Halifax nevertheless remains one of the most interest-ing and picturesque towns of Yorkshire. It is one of the chief seats of the worstedand carpet trades. Huddersfiekl is a well-built town on the Colne, which joins theCalder from the south. It carries on the manufacture of woollens, cottons, and 258 THE BRITISH ISLES. machinery. In its neighbourhood are foundries, quarries, and coal mines. Thosmaller towns dependent upon it—such as Gokar, Linthwaite, Melt ham, and Wooldale—enp;ag:c in the same industries. Once more returnintr to the Calder, we reach Dewshunj, an ancient town,where Paulinus first preached Christianity to the heathen. Together with the neigh-bouring town 0Î Batley, it forms a parliamentary borough. Batley and Dewsburyare the head-quarters of the shoddy trade, whose profitable task it is to convertold clotlies into new cloth. Tlic same industry engages Morkij, Birstall, Cleck- Fig. 126.—Halifax and 1 : 160, G rso 1 Mile. heaton, and other towns in the vicinity ; whilst Ileckmondœike, to the east, producescarpets, blankets, and flushings. Thornhill, to the south of Dewsbury, boasts afine decorated church and an Elizabethan mansion. Wakefield, formerly one of the busiest manufacturing towns of Yorkshire, hasstill some woollen-mills, worsted-mills, and iron Avorks, but flourishes principallyas the great corn market of the county. The feudal enactment which compelledthe inhabitants to have their corn ground in certain mills was in force as recentlyas 1853. Amongst the scholars who attended the grammar school of the townwere Dr. Radcliffe, the founder of the Radcliffe Library, and Dr. Bentley, the TOEKSHIRE. 259 critic. The battle of Wakefield, in which, the Duke of York was defeated andslain by the forces of Queen Margaret, was fought around Sandal Castle, to thesouth of the town (1460). Bleak Barnsley, an interesting town on the river Dearne, i
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