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The Xidil, in its iippor course, flows tlirougli the beautiful Nidderdale, the 

 principal town in which is Patclcij Bridge, where there is a lead mine. Ripley has 



124. — Towns i.\ Suith-Wkstkun Yorkshire. 

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an old castle and an ambitious new town-hall. At Knareshorough the river flows 

 between steep clifl"s, wooded at their foot. Here, too, there is a castle, and, besides 

 this, a "dropping well," by the side of which "Mother Shipton," the famous 



