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Friday, 27 February 2015

CITIES OF YORKSHIRE, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND BERBYSHIRE REGION CITIES OF THE LANCASHIRE REGION


BRADFORD
·         Largest Italian population in Britain outside London.

·         Major centre of worsted textile industry.

HUDDERSFIEKLD

·         Major centre of woolen textile industry.

HUDDERSFIELD

·         Major centre of woolen textile industry.

LEEDS

·         Garments (coal from Yorkshire, soft water from penning streams for washing bleaching and dyeing) and woolen textile centre of UK.

SHIEFFIELD

·         It’s the world’s largest cutlery town which gets coal from Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

MANCHESTER

·         Original cotton textile region of Britain served by the port Liverpool.

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