valley bottom in which workingmen’s cottages have crowded between the tall factories, are among the worst built and dirtiest districts of the whole town.
In the newer portions of this, as of every other factory town, the cottages are more regular, being built in rows, but they share here, too, all the evils incident to the customary method of providing workingmen’s dwellings, evils of which we shall have occasions to speak more particularly in discussing Manchester.
The same is true of the remaining towns of the West Riding, especially of Barnsley, Halifax and Huddersfield. The last named, the handsomest by far of all the factory towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire, by reason of its charming situation and modern architecture, has yet its bad quarter; for a committee appointed by a meeting of citizens to survey the town, reported August 5th, 1844 : > “It is notorious that in Huddersfield whole streets and