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machinery. In its neighbourhood are foundries, quarries, and coal mines. Tho 

 smaller 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 Dewsbury 

 are the head-quarters of the shoddy trade, whose profitable task it is to convert 

 old clotlies into new cloth. Tlic same industry engages Morkij, Birstall, Cleck- 



Fig. 126.— Halifax and Hiddeksfield. 

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heaton, and other towns in the vicinity ; whilst Ileckmondœike, to the east, produces 

 carpets, blankets, and " flushings." Thornhill, to the south of Dewsbury, boasts a 

 fine decorated church and an Elizabethan mansion. 



Wakefield, formerly one of the busiest manufacturing towns of Yorkshire, has 

 still some woollen-mills, worsted-mills, and iron Avorks, but flourishes principally 

 as the great corn market of the county. The feudal enactment which compelled 

 the inhabitants to have their corn ground in certain mills was in force as recently 

 as 1853. Amongst the scholars who attended the grammar school of the town 

 were Dr. Radcliffe, the founder of the Radcliffe Library, and Dr. Bentley, the 



