The timing of textile de-industrialisation in eastern, southern, and western England and the concomitant shift of the woollen manufacture to the West Riding of Yorkshire is examined in temporal detail. The study shows that the manufacture was moving to settlements with cheap coal, low cost of living and running water as early as the sixteenth century. These settlements became key woollen manufacture centres and remained so until the nineteenth century. The industry was located on the West Riding of Yorkshire coal field long before the industrial revolution and the demand for coal to generate steam power.

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亚当·斯密重温：英国羊毛制造与使用蒸汽动力之前煤炭供应之间的关系

详细研究了英格兰东部、南部和西部纺织业去工业化的时间，以及随之而来的羊毛制造业向约克郡西区的转移。研究表明，早在 16 世纪，制造业就已转移到煤炭廉价、生活成本低和有自来水的定居点。这些定居点成为重要的羊毛制造中心，并一直保持到十九世纪。早在工业革命和对煤炭产生蒸汽动力的需求之前，该行业就位于约克郡西区煤田。