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Mirfield

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Mirfield

Town in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder, 7 km/4 mi northeast of Huddersfield; population (2001) 15,700. Principal industries are chemicals, the manufacture of woollen textiles, and dyeing. The Community of the Resurrection, an Anglican theological college founded in Oxford, moved to Mirfield in 1898.

The poet and hymn writer James Montgomery worked at Mirfield as a boy, and the Brontë sisters attended school here. St Peter's College, Roe Head, is a junior seminary for the Verona Fathers, a missionary order founded in 1872.



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