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HEBDEN BRIDGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 166 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEBDEN See also:

BRIDGE ,.an See also:urban See also:district in the See also:Sowerby 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:Calder and Hebden See also:rivers, 7 M. W. by N. of See also:Halifax by the See also:Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1901), 7536. The See also:town has See also:cotton factories, dye-See also:works, foundries and manufactories of shuttles. The upper Calder valley, between Halifax and See also:Todmorden, is walled with bold hills, the summits of which consist of See also:wild moorland. The vale itself is densely populated, but its beauty is not destroyed, and the contrast with its desolate surroundings is remarkable.

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