Heckmondwike, a market-town in Yorkshire, 8 m. NE. of Huddersfield; is the principal seat of the carpet and blanket manufactures in the West Riding.
Population (circa 1900) given as 10,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hecker, Justus Friedrich Karl * Hecla