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  1. Industrial city (chemicals, machine tools),
  2. administrative headquarters of West
  3. Yorkshire, England, on the river Calder,
  4. south of Leeds; population (1981) 310,200.
  5. The Lancastrians defeated the Yorkists here
  6. 1460, during the Wars of the Roses.
  7.