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enclosure represented a final phase of moorland reclamation for food production for the
expanding population, leaving its mark in the high-lying laithe-house hill farms (which usually combined under one roof a house, barn and mistal),
whilst huge reservoirs were constructed to quench the thirst and improve the sanitation of the new
industrial communities. The transport revolution that had been
initiated by canal and turnpike was completed during the 1840s
with the opening of the first railway line through Calderdale.
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