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TODMORDEN , a See also:market See also:town and municipal See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in the See also:Sowerby See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:West See also:Riding of See also:York-See also:shire, See also:England, extending into the See also:Middleton parliamentary division of See also:Lancashire; 19 M. N.N.E. of See also:Manchester, on the Lancashire & See also:Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1901), 25,418. It lies on both sides of the See also:river See also:Calder, and the scenery of the valley is beautiful in spite of the numerous factories. Todmorden See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, a picturesque old See also:mansion of various See also:dates, was the seat of the Radcliffes, but they sold the manorial rights about the See also:close of the 17th See also:century. The town hall is a See also:hand-some classical See also:building erected in 1875; it See also:bridges the See also:county boundary, the Calder, enabling the magistrates to exercise See also:jurisdiction in both counties. There is a See also:bronze statue to See also:John Fielden (1784—1849), to whose See also:energy in developing the See also:cotton manufacture the town owes much of its prosperity. The See also:staple See also:industry is the See also:spinning and See also:weaving of cotton, and there are also foundries and See also:machine-See also:works. The municipal borough, incorporated in 1896, is under a See also:mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. See also:Area, 12,773 acres.
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