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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 618 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOLMFIRTH , an See also:

urban See also:district in the Holmfirth See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:West See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, on and Holme and the Ribble, 6 m. S. of See also:Huddersfield, and on the See also:Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1901) 8977. The valley, walled by bold hills, is very picturesque. In 1852 See also:great destruction was wrought in the See also:town by the bursting of a See also:reservoir in the vicinity. The large See also:industrial See also:population is employed in woollen manufactories, and in the neighbouring See also:stone quarries.

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