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Rastrick and was
In its early history, it was a hamlet of the nearby village of Rastrick.
A wooden structure called Rastrick Bridge was recorded in 1275.
Brighouse was the original home of the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, founded in 1881 and associated with neighbouring Rastrick.
The parish of Rastrick was recorded on 1 July 1837 as part of the Halifax Registration District.
The traditional north western boundary between Elland and Rastrick was the edge of the escarpment, but the Elland Ward boundary is further east, encompassing parts of the old parish of Rastrick as far as Dewsbury Road and the crossroads with New Hey Road.
There was thus a division in the L & MR board between those who supported Stephenson's " loco-motive " and those who favoured cable haulage, the latter supported by the opinion of the engineer, John Rastrick.
The famous Stourbridge Lion locomotive, was built in Stourbridge at the foundry of Foster, Rastrick and Co. in 1828.
) The platform accommodation was built by John Urpeth Rastrick and consisted of four pitched roofs each.
The parliamentary act for the line was passed in 1821 and construction was completed in 1826, the route having been surveyed by the railway promoter William James and engineered by John Urpeth Rastrick.
Stourbridge Lion was one of these three locomotives built by Rastrick, but Stephenson's shop had completed their locomotive, the Pride of Newcastle before any of Rastrick's locomotives.
The engineer for the new railway was John Urpeth Rastrick, who began construction in 1838.
: Built by Slaughter, Grüning and Company, it was probably named after James Foster of Foster, Rastrick and Company.
Foster, Rastrick and Company was one of the pioneering steam locomotive manufacturing companies of England.
Rastrick was one of the judges at the Rainhill Trials in 1829.
Work was started by September, engineered by John Urpeth Rastrick, with the route crossing a valley with the London Road viaduct then running through the South Downs to Falmer before descending down to Lewes, with a station at.
In this position, he designed the Stourbridge Lion, which was built by Foster, Rastrick and Company of England.
John Urpeth Rastrick ( 26 January 1780 – 1 November 1856 ) was one of the first English steam locomotive builders.
Rastrick was born in Morpeth, Northumberland, to John Rastrick and Mary ( Urpeth ).
The partnership between Rastrick and Hazledine was a troubled one, ending in a dispute in 1817.
In 1829 Rastrick was commissioned with James Walker to report on the economics of using either rope haulage or locomotives on the new Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

Rastrick and wrote
Allen wrote back in July that four locomotives had been ordered, three from Foster, Rastrick and Company and one from Robert Stephenson and Company, for the D & H.

Rastrick and under
They originally formed under the name The Brighouse and Rastrick Temperance Brass Band taking their current title in the early 20th century.

Rastrick and inventor
Wilfred Makepeace Lunn ( b. 1942, Rastrick, West Yorkshire, England ) is a UK inventor, prop-maker and TV presenter.

Rastrick and .
Three notable figures from the early days of engineering were selected as judges: John Urpeth Rastrick, a locomotive engineer of Stourbridge, Nicholas Wood, a mining engineer from Killingworth with considerable locomotive design experience and John Kennedy, a Manchester cotton spinner and a major proponent of the railway.
The United Kingdom Census 2001 gave the Brighouse / Rastrick subdivison of the West Yorkshire Urban Area a population of 32, 360.
This included Rastrick but not Hipperholme, which became an urban district.
Junction ( Rastrick ) were crowned champions on 20 April 2008.
Rastrick is a village in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Halifax.
It is perhaps best known for its association, along with its neighbour Brighouse, with the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band.
The area around the Parish Church is known as " Top o't ' Town " and the area around the Junction public house is known as " Bottom o't ' Town ", this reflects the days when Rastrick had its own governance in the form of a Town Board whose Offices and lock-up were situated halfway between the two, on Ogden Lane.
The name Rastrick is thought to be Viking in origin, with the ".. ick " formation being common to many Norwegian Viking placenames, including " Jorvick ", the Viking name for York.
Rastrick is well known for its pubs and the " Rastrick Run " is a popular pub crawl.
Rastrick, and the variation Raistrick are English surnames, originating from the area of the town.
Rastrick is a village and a ward of Calderdale, a metropolitan borough within the ceremonial county of West Yorkshire in England.
Rastrick became a ward of Calderdale, with boundaries similar to those of the original parish.
The ward of Rastrick is bordered to the north by the River Calder, which separates it from the ward of Brighouse.
Rastrick has its own Library which can be found on Crowtrees Lane and a Doctors surgery at Rastrick Health Centre which is on Chapel Croft.
The highest point in the village is Round Hill which is adjacent to the grounds of Rastrick Cricket Club.

was and birthplace
The influence of Mass was less pervasive than that of the congested, slum tenements among the bawdy houses, honkytonks, and sawdust saloons of his birthplace ; ;
One tempest was stirred up last March when Udall announced that an eight-and-a-half-foot bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan, sculpted by the late Gutzon Borglum, would be sent `` on indefinite loan '' to Salem, Illinois, Bryan's birthplace.
In association with his birthplace, Mount Cynthus on the island of Delos, Apollo was called Cynthius ( ; Κύνθιος, Kunthios, literally " Cynthian "), Cynthogenes ( ; Κύνθογενης, Kunthogenēs, literally " born of Cynthus "), and Delius ( ; Δήλιος, Delios, literally " Delian ").
In ancient times, the sea was the birthplace of two ancient civilizations – the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenean Civilization of the Peloponnese.
The last Assyrian city to fall was Harran in south east Anotolia, this city was also the birthplace of the last king of Babylon, the Assyrian Nabonidus and his son and regent Belshazzar.
Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.
For example, Alfonso halted his army in pious respect before the birthplace of a Latin writer, carried Livy or Caesar on his campaigns with him, and his panegyrist Panormita even stated that the king was cured of an illness when a few pages of Quintus Curtius Rufus ' history of Alexander the Great were read to him.
He was an honorary citizen of Zwickau and had a street named for his Audi cars in both Zwickau and his birthplace Winningen.
Thrace was Ares ' birthplace, true home, and refuge after the affair with Aphrodite was exposed to the general mockery of the other gods.
His body was returned to his birthplace in Borgonovo, where he was interred close to his parents.
The campaign seeks to gain World Heritage Status for the iconic Angus landmark that was the birthplace of one of Scotland's most significant documents, the Declaration of Arbroath.
Aberdare was the birthplace of the Second World War poet Alun Lewis, and there is a plaque commemorating him, including a quotation from his poem The Mountain over Aberdare.
Abersychan was the birthplace of the politicians Roy Jenkins, Don Touhig and Paul Murphy ( MP for Torfaen ), and of the rugby footballers Wilfred Hodder, Candy Evans and Bryn Meredith.
* Ansbach was the birthplace of the early chemist, Georg Ernst Stahl.
* Ansbach was the birthplace of the pre-Linnean botanist, Georg Christian Oeder.
* Hermann Fegelein SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler's Adjutant and Adolf Hitler's brother in law was a great admirer of his birthplace, Ansbach.
From 1597 to 1794, Bonn was the residence of the Archbishops and Prince-electors of Cologne, and is the birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven ( born 1770 ).
He is referring to the twinned monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, near modern-day Newcastle, claimed as his birthplace, there is also a tradition that he was born at Monkton, two miles from the monastery at Jarrow.
Biblical tradition holds that Bethlehem is the birthplace of David, the second king of Israel, and the place where he was anointed king by Samuel.
The 1910 census, taken in May before his birthday, further confirms his birth year as 1893, and indicated the family was farming northwest of Wortham, near Lemon Jefferson's birthplace.
Balmoral Castle was the birthplace of Victoria Eugenie of Spain, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
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