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Halesowen

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Halesowen (hālz`ōwən), city (1991 pop. 57,533), Dudley metropolitan district, central England. Listed in the Domesday Book Domesday Book (d
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 as Hala, Halesowen manufactures machine tools, electronic equipment, and bricks. The city also has steel and iron plants. Halesowen was the birthplace of the printer William Caslon Caslon, William (kăz`lən), 1692–1766, English type designer, b. Worcestershire.
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 and the poet William Shenstone Shenstone, William, 1714–63, English poet and landscape gardener. The Schoolmistress (1742), his best-known poem, was written in imitation of Spenser. His home, "Leasowes," in Shropshire, was a notable example of 18th-century landscaping.
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United Kingdom -- Henley Foundries, Halesowen, West Midlands, United Kingdom, will supply Perkins Engines, Peterborough, United Kingdom, with exhaust manifolds for its 4000 Series of engines.
Structal (UK) Ltd, Fountain House, East Wing, Great Cornbow, Halesowen, West Midlands B63 3BL, UK +44 (0) 121 550 9987 Fax: +44 (0) 121 550 5123
Based in Halesowen, UK, Serco Ryan is part of the WYKO group of companies, which has over 2,500 employees in the UK and continental Europe.
 
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