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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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nhabitants to have their corn ground in certain mills was in force as recentlyas 1853. Amongst the scholars who attended the grammar school of the townwere Dr. Radcliffe, the founder of the Radcliffe Library, and Dr. Bentley, the TOEKSHIRE. 259 critic. The battle of Wakefield, in which, the Duke of York was defeated andslain by the forces of Queen Margaret, was fought around Sandal Castle, to thesouth of the town (1460). Bleak Barnsley, an interesting town on the river Dearne, is the centre ofthe linen manufacture of Yorkshire. Its neighbourhood abounds in collieries andiron works. One of the former has been sunk to a depth of 1,885 feet, and yieldsdaily a thousand tons of coal. Worsborougli and Nether Hoijland, to the south o£Barnsley, have important iron works, whilst Silkstone, to the west, is best knownfor its coal. It was also the birthplace of Bramah, the locksmith. The river Don rises not far from Woodhead Tunnel, through which runs the Fig. 127.—Sheffield.Scale 1 : 113,000.
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ll?3oW.of G 2 Miles. railway connecting South-western Yorkshire with Manchester. Thiwlstone,Penistone, and TFortlej/ are small towns on the Upper Don, which in its onwardcourse traverses the famous manufacturing town of Sheffield. It is admirablyseated in the midst of a fine amphitheatre of hills, at the point of junction offive rivers, and above the stores of coal which furnish its numerous factorieswith the fuel indispensable to them. Shefiaeld, originally a small feudal village,has been for centuries a place of iron-workers, and Chaucer mentions the•thwytels which were made there. Soon after the Reformation skilledFlemish metal-workers settled in the town, and greatly contributed towards 260 . THE BRITISH ISLES. its pro^pcritv. lint it is only since the beginning of the present century thatthis Yorkshire town has won the first pUice in the world for its cutlery andsteel. Its population is seven times greater now than what it was in 1801,and continues to increase at the same rate.

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