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HINDLEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 479 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HINDLEY  , an

urban
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district in the
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Ince
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parliamentary division of
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Lancashire, England, 2 M . E.S.E. of
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Wigan, on the Lancashire &
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Yorkshire and
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Great Central
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railways . Pop . (1901) 23,504 . Cotton spinning and the manufacture of cotton goods are the
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principal
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industries, and there are extensive
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coal-mines in the neighbourhood . It is recorded that in the time of the Puritan revolution Hindley church was entered by the Cavaliers, who played at cards in the pews, pulled down the pulpit and tore the Bible in pieces .

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