Dugdale 1846 England & Wales delineated
A magnificent set of this rare work. England and Wales Delineated - Historical, Entertaining & Commercial Alphabetically arranged by Thomas Dugdale - antiquarian. Eleven Volumes...Full set of especially commissioned Archer maps, 300 Etchings - towns, buildings, monuments, people, views.
Dugdale's England and Wales delineated 1846 - 11 Vol. Set.
Entry for Dewsbury.....
* DEWSBURY is seated partly on the southern declivity of a gentle eminence,
and partly in a vale, watered by the Calder. This situation is fine ;
and the town, when viewed with its environs from the steep above, appears
beautiful and interesting. It is a place of considerable antiquity ; and if
au inscription on the church is to be relied on, which implies that
Paulinus, the first Archbishop of York, preached here in 627, it has been
of note since the introduction of Christianity. By means of the navigable
river Calder, an overflowing population, and a plentiful supply of
coal, Dewsbury possesses almost every advantage for carrying on manufactures
with spirit. These are chiefly of blankets and coarse broad
cloths. The environs, rising in gentle eminences, are extremely pleasant.
This town, from its peculiar situation, embraces many commercial advantages,
and commands an excellent inland navigation. On the top of the
church, which is dedicated to All Saints, is a cross, bearing an inscription
already alluded to, viz., "Hie Paulinus predicavit et celebravit, A.D., 627."
This ancient memorial, which probably itself was not the original fell down
in 1805, but was replaced by a fac-simile. Thus from the early preaching of
Paulinus, this place became the common centre, from which the light of
Christianity spread over the vale of Calder, and was the mother church of
an extensive district to the west; several parishes in which still acknowledge
their original dependence, by certain prescriptive payments to the
incumbent of Dewsbury.
Market, Wednesday.—Fairs, Wednesday before May 12th, and Wednesday before October
10th, for horned cattle and sheep.—Bankers, Messrs. Hagues and Co., draw on Smith & Co.
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