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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 481 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASTLEFORD , an See also:

urban See also:district in the Osgoldcross See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:West See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, on the See also:river See also:Aire near its junction with the See also:Calder, 9 M. S.E. of See also:Leeds, on the See also:North-Eastern and See also:Lancashire & Yorkshire See also:railways. Pop. (1901) 17,386. Large See also:glass-See also:bottle and earthenware-See also:jar See also:works, chemical works, and neighbouring collieries employ the inhabitants. Here was the See also:Roman See also:village or fort of Lagecium or Legeolium; and though visible remains are wanting, a number of See also:relics have been discovered. See also:CASTLE-GUARD, an arrangement under the feudal See also:system, by which the See also:duty of finding knights to guard royal castles was imposed on certain baronies, and divided among their See also:knight's fees. The greater barons provided for the guard of their castles by exacting a similar duty from their knights. In both cases the See also:obligation was commuted very See also:early for a fixed See also:money See also:payment, which, as " castle-guard See also:rent " lasted on to See also:modern times. See J. H. See also:Round, " Castle-Guard," in Archaeological See also:Journal, vol. lix., and " Castle-See also:ward and Coinage," in The See also:Commune of See also:London.

(J. H.

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