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BBC - h2g2 - Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. (1561 words) |
 | Sowerby Bridge is a small, friendly and relaxed town in the Calder Valley, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Ryburn, surrounded by the dramatic scenery of the South Pennine Hills. |
| Sowerby Bridge started off as a medieval river crossing on the way to Sowerby, a settlement thought to date back to the 10th Century, situated on a hill on the South bank of the River Calder. |
| Manufacturing in Sowerby Bridge had reached its peak in the early 20th Century, having clothed the British army in the campaigns against Louis XIV, Napoleon and in the Crimean War, and provided shells, maritime engines and munitions, caterpillar tread covers and blankets in World Wars I and II. |
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