The second big industry of the Great Britain - the woollen manufacturing

The second big industry of the Great Britain - the woollen manufacturing. This industry in England, mainly in West Yorkshire, area which also is supplied by coal as, is Southern Lancashire. Leeds (410 000) and (232 000) is two basic places of the industry, but Huddersfield and Halifax - also important 'fabric cities,' and many other communities are identified with manufacturing woollens. Noted 'the West of England' fabrics is made mainly in Gloucestershire, where their manufacturing in city Stroud - a survival of the ancient industry once the general everywhere on the whole county. In Scotland there are two centres of the woollen industry. The first and the most important is in southeast Scotland where, in the Tweed valley (in Galashiels, Hawick, Jedburgh, etc.), well-known 'Scottish tweeds' are made. The second is in valley Teith (the Sterling, Bannockburn, etc.) . Once sheep who were pastured on heathlands , were the main delivery of raw materials for this industry in all Great Britain, but that time long passes now. Full annual import of a wool to the Great Britain makes approximately 750 000 pounds from which approximately one half is kept for the domestic industry. Two thirds of this import arrive from [90] Australia. Wool and wool number
Factories in sets of kingdom more than 2750. Value of the woollen goods made annually, makes approximately 250 000 000$ which is approximately one quarter of a full product of the world.
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