Dewsbury

Dewsbury is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire. According to the census Dewsbury had a total of 54 341 inhabitants in 2001.

Geography

The River Calder within the landscape West Riding of Yorkshire Dewsbury is surrounded by a number of major cities, where it serves as a commuter town of Leeds and Bradford lie around 12 km to the north, about the same distance south-west of Huddersfield and Wakefield about 10 km to the east. Traffic Technically, the city is connected by motorway M 1 and over the railway line of the Huddersfield Line. The town center is 40-55 m above sea level, the hilly district rises at Grange Moor at up to 230 m.

History

Dewsbury was first mentioned in 627 the first time, as Paulinus, the first Bishop of York, preached here. Numerous finds tombs in Dewsbury and Thornhill prove that the area was densely populated in Anglo -Saxon times, when it belonged to the kingdom of Deira and Northumbria. After the Norman Conquest the place is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1085 as Deusberia; the exact origin of this name is unclear - the first part of the name may refer to a Erstbesiedeler named Dui, Dew or Deus or God Tiu, the second part probably means castle or hill. In the 13th century, built on the banks of the Calder Minster ( Minster ) from Dewsbury, allegedly at the point at which Paulinus had already preached. In the church there is the bell Devil's Knell, the Christmas Eve with their bells indicating each year, how many years have passed since the birth of Christ, ie in 2006 suggests the bell for Christmas 2006 times. This tradition has existed since the 15th century when Sir Thomas de Soothill the bell donated; an act of contrition, after he had killed a boy in anger.

Since the 14th century Dewsbury is a market town for the local textile industry. Because of the outbreak of the plague in 1593 and 1603, this market was closed for a long time and only re-opened in 1741. In the middle of the 18th century. preached the founder of the Methodist Church, John Wesley, a total of five times in Dewsbury; the Methodist Society of Dewsbury was founded in 1746 and on the occasion of the centenary of this event, the Centenary Chapel was built.

1770 Dewsbury received by a branch duct connecting to the Calder and Hebble - channel network, so that the goods produced in Dewsbury could henceforth be shipped to Hull and Manchester. The town was known for the production of shoddy textiles, besides flourished here, as in the neighboring towns, the coal - mining industry. In 1848 Dewsbury finally got also a railway connection. Industrialization brought a surge in population numbers with them; lived in 1801 still 4,566 inhabitants, it was 1890 already 30.000 1862 Dewsbury Municipal Borough was, six years later, a separate constituency in the general election. Among the buildings of the Victorian period, especially the Town Hall is one from 1848. Subsequently Ravensthorpe, Thornhill and Soothill Nether and half of Soothill Upper were incorporated. Dewsbury in 1913 was raised to County Borough. Dewsbury in 1911 had 53 351 inhabitants, since this number is largely stagnating. Towards the end of the 19th century migrated V.A. many Irish workers into the city, reminder of this the name of the local rugby clubs Dewsbury Celtics. Since the 1950s, immigration rose from Pakistan and other South Asian countries; this group of people focused mainly workers for the textile industry, which until then had to suffer from labor shortages. Of the 54 341 inhabitants in 2001, according to the census, approximately 13,000 people of Asian origin.

Economy

While the city is considered to be prosperous in the town center retail chains such as Sainsbury's, Halfords, Next, and provide Matalan for economic revival and the East, another quarter are rather run down, so that the city receives EU funding for their renovation. Dewsbury Moor, Ravensthorpe and Chickenley are among the 10 % of the poorest parts of the UK. One third of the homes in the city is without central heating, and unemployment is higher than average. Despite the high proportion of migrants Dewsbury has remained largely unaffected by race riots. However, the far-right BNP has some feed here. Dewsbury is also the seat of the British Islamic missionary organization Tablighi Jamaat.

Sports

The city is home to the rugby club Dewsbury Rams, whose stadium is located at Owl Lane. The original stadium Crown Flatts fell in the late 1980s an arson attack victim.

Education

The statistics show the Dewsbury 's Eastborough Junior Infant and Nursery School from school than that which could improve their performance best in the last four years. The Batley College of Art and Design, part of Dewsbury College is known for its achievements in the field of printing and textile related art.

Personalities

  • Benjamin Bailey (1791-1871), missionary
  • Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1836-1925), physician, inventor of the clinical thermometer
  • Owen Willans Richardson (1879-1959), physicist, Nobel Prize winner
  • Betty Boothroyd ( born 1929 ), Madame Speaker of the British House of Commons
  • Patrick Stewart ( born 1940 in the near Mirfield ), actor
  • Mary Tamm (1950-2012), actress
  • Andrew Morton ( born 1953 ), journalist and author
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