. The railroad book of England: historical, topographical and picturesque; descriptive of the cities, towns, country seats, and other subjects of local interest. With a brief sketch of the lines in Scotland and Wales . Manchester and Leeds, p. 418.) ■§ m. s. Rastrick. ^ m. s. Sheepridge, and 2 m. s. Kibkeaton. J m. s. HopTON. 416 MANCHESTER TO LEEDS =e3Bradford Line. DE-vrsBrRY, a market-town and township, in the T^est Riding of the ^^ ^- dewsbubtcounty of York, situated on the Calder. It is a manufacturing to-rni, lies low,but is well jjaved and lighted, and has some good streets and weU-buil
. The railroad book of England: historical, topographical and picturesque; descriptive of the cities, towns, country seats, and other subjects of local interest. With a brief sketch of the lines in Scotland and Wales . Manchester and Leeds, p. 418.) ■§ m. s. Rastrick. ^ m. s. Sheepridge, and 2 m. s. Kibkeaton. J m. s. HopTON. 416 MANCHESTER TO LEEDS =e3Bradford Line. DE-vrsBrRY, a market-town and township, in the T^est Riding of the ^^ ^- dewsbubtcounty of York, situated on the Calder. It is a manufacturing to-rni, lies low,but is well jjaved and lighted, and has some good streets and weU-builtstone houses. Its institutions are, a free school, revenue £10S per annum;mechanics institute, branch banks, and blanket haU. It has thriving manu-factures of blankets, car])ets, &c., and low woollen fabrics made from oldwooUen rags respim. The Calder navigation connects the to^mi with Hidland Liverpool; there are collieries in the vicinity. Eairs, Wednesdaysafter Mav 12th and before October 10th. Leeds. (See Bu-miugham to Leeds, p. 35-t.) 50 in. itlanrixfsitcr to Hcclrjs via fl^ntrlreriSftcllr* SLeft of ^ilailixiag from iKancfjester. i m. T m. x. of the station is. CKOiT HOUSE, JOIl^ BOSS COVLTHART, ESQ. This mansion, erected in LSlO, after designs by Cowley, is in theGrecian stvle of architecture, having a projecting central compartmentflanked bvwings on the east and west. The finely-proportioned internalapartments are decorated Avith pictures by Cuyp, Mieris, iVIaas, De Roy,Jan Steen, Yermulen, Wouvermans, &c.; and the library, containing up-wards of 7,000 volumes, is em-iched T\-itli clioice copies of Bede, Baldwin,Stowe, Lhuyd, Froissart, Fordan, liollingshed, Dugdale, Camden, theDomesday Survey, and others of great value and rarity. Staylevbtstdge. Distfince fromManchester. i\ m. PARK ST A. 3i ni. CLAYTONBKIDGE STA. 5 m. DKOYLSDENSTATIOX. 6i m. ASHTONSTATION. Enter Cheshire. 8 ni. BEUXiK STA. VIA HUDDEESFIELD. 417 41 m.
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