A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
SOWERBY-BRIDGE, a town and a chapelry in Sowerby, Warley, Norland, and Skircoat townships, Halifax parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the river Calder, at the terminns of the Rochdale canal, and on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 2¾ miles SW by W of Halifax; rose, since about the beginning of the present century, from only a few scattered houses; is now a very considerable and thrivng place; carries on traffic at extensive wharves, and industry in very large worsted, cotton, and corn mills, in dye works, wire-works, oil-cloth-works, and tan-yards, and in large chemicaland iron-works; and has a post-office‡ under Normanton, a railway-station with telegraph, a spacious town hall of 1857, a large church of 1820, four dissenting chapels, a public cemetery, a Church institute, and two national schools. Pop. in 1851, 4,365; in 1861, 5,382. Houses, 1.060. Pop. in 1868, about 7,000.—The chapelry is conterminate with the town. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Halifax.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a town and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Halifax AP/CP Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Sowerby Bridge |
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