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| | Slaithwaite Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | SLAITHWAITE is a chapelry, in the parish of Huddersfield, 4 and a half miles SW from that town, and about 2 and a half NE from Marsden; situate in the valley of the Colne, and near to the Huddersfield and Manchester canal. |
 | | A place of worship for baptists, a free school, and a grammar school are in the chapelry; the population of which at the last census, amounted to 2,852 persons; and that of the neighbouring township of Linthwaite, at the same period, 2,852. |
 | | Slaithwaite is in the township of Slaithwaite which consists of |
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