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ECCLESFIELD

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 847 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ECCLESFIELD , a township in the Hallamshire See also:

parliamentary See also:division of the See also:West See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, 5 M. N. of See also:Sheffield, on the See also:Great Central and Midland See also:railways. The See also:church of St See also:Mary is Perpendicular, with a central See also:tower, and contains excellent woodwork. It formerly See also:bore, and must have deserved, the See also:familiar See also:title of the " See also:Minster of the See also:Moors." Ecclesfield was the seat of a See also:Benedictine priory, which passed to the See also:Carthusians in the 14th See also:century. See also:Cutlery and tools are largely manufactured, and there are See also:coal-mines, See also:paper See also:mills and See also:iron and See also:fire-See also:clay See also:works. After the inclusion within the See also:county See also:borough of Sheffield of See also:part of the See also:civil See also:parish of Ecclesfield in 1901, the See also:population was 18,324.

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