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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 574 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MIRFIELD , an See also:

urban See also:district in the See also:Morley See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:West See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, 3 m. S.W. of See also:Dewsbury, on the See also:Lancashire & Yorkshire and See also:London & See also:North-Western See also:railways. Pop. (19o1), 11,J41. The See also:church of St See also:Mary was completed in 1874, from designs of See also:Sir See also:Gilbert See also:Scott. The See also:tower of the See also:ancient church remains. The large See also:industrial See also:population is employed in woollen, See also:cotton, See also:carpet and blanket manufactures, and in the numerous collieries in the vicinity.

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