Wrose
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Wrose is a village and civil parish in the City of Bradford metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England, about three miles north of Bradford city centre, and south-east of Shipley. It sits on top of a hillside at a height of around 600-foot (180 m) above sea level, overlooking the Aire valley and Bradford valley. Since 2004, it has constituted a civil parish and is surrounded entirely by the unparished area of Bradford.[1]
Around the hillside (Carr Hill) can be found the remains of many stone quarries, whose growth exploded in the 19th century as the city of Bradford grew with the wool trade. Many of Bradford's fine Yorkshire millstone buildings are built from these resources. A quarry at nearby Bolton Woods still operates today.
[edit] Notable residents
Wrose was home to the Yorkshire sporting family the Jowets, of which the last and most notable member was Dawson Jowet, founder of the Airedale beagles hunting pack in 1891, and its Master until his death in 1933.[2] His monument remains on Ilkley moor.
[edit] References
- ^ "Nine elected to new parish council", Bradford Telegraph and Argus, 16 June 2004. Retrieved 3 December 2011
- ^ "History of the Airedale Beagles", Airedalebeagles.com. Retrieved 3 December 2011
[edit] External links
Media related to Wrose at Wikimedia Commons
Coordinates: 53°49′40″N 1°45′07″W / 53.82791°N 1.75206°W
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