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HEBDEN-BRIDGE, a small town, a chapelry, and a sub-district in Halifax parish, Todmorden district, W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands in a deep valley, at the influx of the Hebden to the Calder, on the Rochdale canal and the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 5 miles E of the boundary with Lancashire, and 8 W by N of Halifax; is partly in the township of Heptonstall, partly in that of Wadsworth, partly in that of Erringden; and has a post office‡ under Manchester, a railway station with telegraph, a mechanics' institution, a news room, a public library, many large cotton factories, a silk mill, dye works, iron foundries, and a saw mill. Fairs are held on Whit-Monday and 25 Sept.; and manufactures of cotton twist, calicoes, fustians, ginghams, checks, and shuttles, are carried on. The scenery in its neighbourhood is remarkably fine; and one spot, about 3 miles from it, besides being strikingly picturesque in itself, commands a panoramic view equal or superior to the best in the valleys of the Dove and the Dee.—The chapelry was constituted in 1844, and is sometimes but improperly called Mytholm. Pop. in 1861, 3, 385. Houses, 764. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £200. Patron, the Vicar of Halifax. The church was built in 1833; and is in the pointed style, with an embattled tower. There are three chapels for Baptists, one for Wesleyans, and one for Free Methodists.—The sub-district contains the entire townships of Heptonstall, Wadsworth, and Erringden, and the lower third division of the township of Stansfield. Acres, exclusive of the Stansfield portion, 18, 389. Pop. of the whole, in 1851, 12, 462; in 1861, 10, 826. Houses, 2, 404. The decrease of pop. was caused by depression in hand loom weaving.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a small town, a chapelry, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Hebden Bridge CP Todmorden RegD/PLU Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Hebden Bridge |
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