Idle, a town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, near the Aire, 3 miles N. by E. of Bradford, like which it is a seat of the woollen manufactory. Pop. of township (1851) 7118; (1891) 14,462.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 69
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