Huddersfield, a busy manufacturing town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, is favourably situated in a coal district on the Colne, 26 m. NE. of Manchester; is substantially built, and is the northern centre of the “fancy trade” and woollen goods; cotton, silk, and machine factories and iron-founding are also carried on on a large scale.
Population (circa 1900) given as 96,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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