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CROMPTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 486 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CROMPTON  , an

urban
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district of
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Lancashire, England, 22 M . N. of Oldham, within the
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parliamentary borough of Oldham . Pop . (1901) 13,427 . At Shaw, a populous
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village included within it, is a station on the Lancashire &
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Yorkshire railway . Cotton mills and the collieries of the neighbourhood employ the large
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industrial population .

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