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PUDSEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 632 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PUDSEY , a municipal See also:

borough in the Pudsey See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:West See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, 6 m. W. by S. of See also:Leeds, on the See also:Great See also:Northern railway. Pop. (1891), 13,444; (1901), 14,907. The See also:principal buildings are the See also:church of St See also:Lawrence in See also:Gothic See also:style, erected in 1821, and the See also:mechanics' See also:institute, a See also:fine See also:building, comprising class-rooms, a library, a public See also:hall and a lecture hall. A public See also:park was opened in 1889. The See also:town has an important woollen See also:trade and possesses See also:dyeing and fulling See also:mills. See also:Part of the See also:parish, Tyersall, is in the borough of See also:Bradford. Pudsey is mentioned in Domesday. It was sold by See also:Edward II. to the See also:Calverley See also:family, from which it passed to an ancestor of the Milners. The town was incorporated in 1899, and the See also:corporation consists of a See also:mayor,. 6 aldermen and 18 councillors.

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Area, 2399 acres.

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