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LONG EATON

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 974 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LONG EATON  , an urban
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district in the
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Ilkeston
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parliamentary division of
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Derbyshire, England, ro m . E.S.E. of Derby, on the Midland railway . Pop . - (1891) 9636; (1901) 13,045 . It lies in the open valley of the Trent, at a short distance from the
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river, and near the important Trent Junction on the Midland railway
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system . The church of St Lawrence has Norman portions, and an arch and window apparently of pre-
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Conquest date . The large
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industrial population of the
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town is occupied in the manufacture of lace, which extended hither from Notting-
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ham; there are also railway
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carriage
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works . To the north is the township of SANDIACRE (pop . 2954), where the church has a
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fine Decorated chancel .

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