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"The
Fortunes of the Place were to all intents and purposes Made"
J.Lister 1470
By 1475 the Calderdale region had become the
largest producer of Kersey cloth in England. At this time the
volume of woollen cloth sold at the Halifax market was five times
more than cloth sold in Leeds and eight times that of cloth sold
at Bradford.
As trade developed stalls put up to sell cloth
close to the Parish Church were moved near to the market cross. Later a cloth hall was built at Hall End.
This tells us that the buying and selling of cloth had become
an important part of the local economy. On market day cloth merchants
were regular visitors to Halifax and local clothiers who "put cloth to making and sale" were spending money they had earned to buy wool and food.
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