COLNE
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V06,
Page 696
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
COLNE
, a market town and municipal See also: - BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
in the Clitheroe parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, 341 M
.
N. by E. from Manchester by the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway; it is served also by a branch of the Midland railway from Skipton
.
Pop
.
(1901) 23,000
.
It stands on a hilly site above a small affluent of the river Calder
.
The See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
of St Bartholomew retains some Norman work, but is chiefly of various later periods
.
There is a cloth See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
or piece hall, originally used as an exchange when woollens were the staple of the town
.
The grammar school isof interest as the place where John Tillotson (163o-1694), archbishop of Canterbury, received early education
.
Colne is a place of great antiquity, and many Roman coins have been found on the site
.
As early as the ,4th century it was the seat of a woollen manufacture; but its principal manufactures now are cottons, printed calicoes and muslin
.
In the neighbour- hood are several limestone and slate quarries
.
The town was incorporated in 1895, and the corporation consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors
.
Area, 5063 acres
.
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