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Brighouse became a ‘canal’ port when the Calder and Hebble canal was cut in 1759.
A manufacturing town in the West Riding woollen district and by the 19th century not only wool but cotton and silk were spun here.
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Brighouse became a ‘canal’ port when the Calder and Hebble canal was cut in 1759.
A manufacturing town in the West Riding woollen district and by the 19th century not only wool but cotton and silk were spun here.