Egypt is a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

near Thornton, in the

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, England.

Geography

Egypt is situated about north-west of Thornton on a hairpin bend of a road between Well Heads and a junction with the

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near

Wilsden Wilsden is a village and civil parish in west Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England. Wilsden is west of Bradford and is close to the Aire Valley and the nearby villages of Denholme, Cullingworth, Harden, Cottingley and Allerton. Wilsden re- ...

, and at the top (western) end of the marked valley of Bell Dean in which a stream runs roughly in an eastern direction. High walls that were erected to hold back the waste rock from the local quarries flank the road, giving rise to the nickname "The Walls of Jericho".

History

The hamlet was established in the first half of the 19th century and is named on maps surveyed in the late 1840s. Its name may be related to the commemoration of the 1798 invasion of

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

by the troops of

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, or the nearby Egypt Methodist Chapel which was already demolished by 1876. The names of other hamlets in the area such as Jericho, Jerusalem, and World's End are also of biblical origin. Quarrying was the major industry in the area, with about 30 active quarries reported in the 1870s.

References

(Reprint: Mountain Press, 1968)

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* - Description of a circular walk in the area {{City of Bradford Hamlets in West Yorkshire Geography of the City of Bradford

Geography

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