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HECKMONDWIKE

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 195 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HECKMONDWIKE , an See also:

urban See also:district in the Spen Valley See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:West See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, 8 m. S.S.E. of See also:Bradford, on the See also:Lancashire & Yorkshire, See also:Great See also:Northern, and See also:London & See also:North-Western See also:railways. Pop. (1901), 9459• Like the See also:town of See also:Dewsbury, on the See also:south-See also:east, it is an important centre of the blanket and See also:carpet manufactures, and there are also See also:machine See also:works, dye works and See also:iron foundries. See also:Coal is extensively wrought in the vicinity.

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