Dewsbury

Dewsbury is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, to the west of Wakefield, in the borough of Kirklees. It lies by the River Calder and the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

Dewsbury was one of the centres for the "shoddy" industry, the recycling of old woollen items by mixing them with new wool and making them into heavy blankets and uniforms.

The Reverend Patrick Brontë, the father of Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë, was rector of the parish church here.

Dewsbury was also the birth place of British Actress Rebecca Callard