Sowerby Bridge

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Sowerby Bridge is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

Situated around three miles southwest of Halifax, the town is at the junction of the Rochdale Canal and the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The town had a population of 9,948 at the 2001 Census.

Rushbearing, the ceremony of taking rushes to churches for covering the floors throughout winter, still takes place here over the first weekend of September.

From 1892 to 1930 home of Pollit & Wigzell ltd a prominent manufacturer of quality stationary steam engines used in the cotton and woollen mills of Yorkshire, Lancashire and India.

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