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ROTHWELL

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 759 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROTHWELL , an See also:

urban See also:district in the See also:Normanton See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:West See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, 4 M. S.E. of See also:Leeds. Pop. (1901) 11,702. The See also:church of the See also:Holy Trinity, though largely restored, retains some See also:good Decorated details. Rothwell soon after the See also:Conquest was granted as a dependency of the See also:castle of See also:Pontefract to the Lacys, who erected here a baronial See also:residence of which there are slight remains. See also:Coal and See also:stone are obtained in the See also:neighbour-See also:hood, and the See also:town possesses match-See also:works and rope and twine factories in which the See also:majority of the large See also:industrial See also:population is employed.

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