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Featherstone
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an urban district in the Osgoldcross parliamentary division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 6 m. E. of Wakefield on the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway. Pop. 0[901) 12,093. The industrial population is employed in large collieries in the vicinity; and here, on the 7th of September 1893, serious riots during a strike resulted in the destruction of some of the colliery works belonging to Lord Masham, and were not quelled without military intervention and some bloodshed.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Featherstone'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/f/featherstone.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Featherstone'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/f/featherstone.html. 1910.
