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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 186 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FARNWORTH , an See also:

urban See also:

DISTRICT

district in the See also:

Radcliffe-cum-Farnworth See also:

PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of See also:

LANCASHIRE

Lancashire, See also:

England, on the Irwell, 3 M . S.E. of See also:

Bolton by the Lancashire & See also:

YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire railway . Pop . (19o1) 25,925 . See also:

Cotton See also:

mills, See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron foundries, See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick and See also:

TILE (0. Eng. tigel, Fr. tuile, connected with Lat. tegula)

tile See also:

WORKS

works, and collieries employ the large See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

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