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GLOSSOP

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 128 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GLOSSOP  , a

market
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town and municipal borough, in the High
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Peak.
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parliamentary division of
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Derbyshire, England, on the extreme
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northern border of the county; 13 M . E. by S. of Manchester by the
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Great Central railway . Pop . (19o1) 21,526 . It is the chief seat of the cotton manufacture in Derbyshire, and it has also woollen and paper mills, dye and
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print
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works, and
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bleaching greens . The town consists of three main divisions, the Old Town (or Glossop proper), Howard Town (or Glossop Dale) and Mill Town . An older parish church was replaced by that of All Saints in 183o; there is also a very
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fine
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Roman Catholic church . In the immediate neighbourhood is Glossop Hall, the seat of Lord Howard, lord of the
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manor, a picturesque old
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building with extensive terraced gardens . On a hill near the town is Melandra Castle, the site of a Roman fort guarding Longdendale and the way into the hills of the Peak
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District . In the neighbourhood also a great railway viaduct spans the Dinting valley with sixteen arches . To the north, in Longdendale, there are five lakes belonging to the
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water-supply
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system of Manchester, formed by damming the Etherow, a stream which descends from the high moors north-east of Glossop . The town is governed by a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors .

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Area, 3052 acres . Glossop was granted by Henry I. to William Peverel, on the attainder of whose son it reverted to the
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crown . In 1157 it was gifted by Henry II. to the abbey of Basingwerk . Henry VIII. bestowed it on the
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earl of Shrewsbury . It was made a municipal borough in 1866 .

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