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Dewsbury (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 53 42 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 53.7000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 001 37 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -1.6167 decimal degrees |
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Note: Large town located on the River Calder nine miles south of Leeds. Industries include ironworks, textiles, and engineering. There is a church here with fine Saxon cross fragments and 13th-century Moot Hall is also here. |
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| Dewsbury (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Dewsbury (British English-P,U,N)
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| Drewsbury (NA,V,English,U)
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| Deusberia (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Deusberie (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
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Kirklees (unitary authority) (P) |
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Dewsbury (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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| town (C) |
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| manufacturing center (C) |
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