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"What makes the price of beer and Luddites rise?
What fills the butchers' shops with large blue flies?"
The population is about 30,000, and returns one member to the House of
Commons.
About half a mile from the town is Lockwood Spa, of strongly sulphurous
waters, for which a set of handsome buildings have been provided.
LEEDS.
LEEDS, seventeen miles from Huddersfield, is the centre of five railways, by
which it has direct connection with Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle,
on the east, and Carlisle on the west coast, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby,
and Birmingham, in the Midland counties, possesses one of the finest central
railway stations in the kingdom, and has also the advantage of being in the
centre of inland navigation (a great advantage for the transport of heavy
goods), as it communicates with the eastern seas by the Aire and Calder
navigation to the Humber, and westward by the Leeds and Liverpool to the
Mersey. The town stands on a hill, which rises from the banks of the river
Aire. Leeds has claims to antiquity, but few remains. When Domesday Book
was compiled it appears to have been an agricultural district.
Wakefield was formerly the more important town.
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