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Encyclopedia Britannica



DEWSBURY

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 141 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DEM-DIO
DEWSBURY , a market town and municipal and parliamentary borough in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on the river
Calder
 , 8 m. S.S.W. of Leeds, on the
Great
  Northern, London & North-Western, and Lancashire & Yorkshire railways. Pop. (1901) 28,060.. The parish church of All Saints was for the most part rebuilt in the latter half of the 18th century; the portions still preserved of the
original
  structure are mainly Early English. The
chief
  industries are the making of blankets, carpets, druggets and worsted yarn ; and there are iron foundries and machinery works. Coal is worked in the neighbourhood. The parliamentary borough includes the adjacent municipal borough of Batley, and returns one member. The municipal borough, incorporated in 1862, is under a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. Area, 1471 acres. Paulinus, first archbishop of
York
 , about the year 627 preached in the
district
  of Dewsbury, where Edwin, king of Northumbria, whom he converted to Christianity, had a royal mansion. At Kirklees, in the parish, are remains of a Cistercian convent of the 12th century, in an extensive park, where tradition relates that Robin Hood died and was buried.


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