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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OSSETT , a municipal See also:

borough 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. W. of See also:Wakefield, on the See also:Great See also:Northern and (Horbury and Ossett station) the See also:Lancashire and Yorkshire See also:railways. Pop. (1901) 12,903. It includes the contiguous townships of Ossett, See also:South Ossett and Gawthorpe. The See also:church of the See also:Holy Trinity, a See also:fine cruciform structure in the See also:Early Decorated See also:style, was erected in 1865. Woollen See also:cloth See also:mills, and extensive collieries in the neighbourhood, employ the large See also:industrial See also:population. There are medicinal springs similar in their properties to those of See also:Cheltenham. The municipal borough, incorporated in 189o, is under a See also:mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. See also:Area 3238 acres.

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