TOEKSHIRE. 



259 



critic. The battle of Wakefield, in which, the Duke of York was defeated and 

 slain by the forces of Queen Margaret, was fought around Sandal Castle, to the 

 south of the town (1460). 



"Bleak" Barnsley, an interesting town on the river Dearne, is the centre of 

 the linen manufacture of Yorkshire. Its neighbourhood abounds in collieries and 

 iron works. One of the former has been sunk to a depth of 1,885 feet, and yields 

 daily a thousand tons of coal. Worsborougli and Nether Hoijland, to the south o£ 

 Barnsley, have important iron works, whilst Silkstone, to the west, is best known 

 for its coal. It was also the birthplace of Bramah, the locksmith. 



The river Don rises not far from "Woodhead Tunnel, through which runs the 



Fig. 127. — Sheffield. 

 Scale 1 : 113,000. 



ll?3o' W.of G 



2 Miles. 



railway connecting South-western Yorkshire with Manchester. Thiwlstone, 

 Penistone, and TFortlej/ are small towns on the Upper Don, which in its onward 

 course traverses the famous manufacturing town of Sheffield. It is admirably 

 seated in the midst of a fine amphitheatre of hills, at the point of junction of 

 five rivers, and above the stores of coal which furnish its numerous factories 

 with the fuel indispensable to them. Shefiaeld, originally a small feudal village, 

 has been for centuries a place of iron-workers, and Chaucer mentions the 

 '•'thwytels" which were made there. Soon after the Reformation skilled 

 Flemish metal-workers settled in the town, and greatly contributed towards 



