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MARPLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 750 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARPLE  , an

urban
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district in the Hyde
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parliamentary division of
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Cheshire, England, 12 M . S.E. of Manchester, served by the
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Great Central, Midland & Sheffield and Midland
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railways, and the Cheshire lines . Pop . (1901), 5595• It lies on and above the valley of the Goyt, and its situation has brought the
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town into favour as a residential centre for those whose business lies in Manchester,
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Stockport, and the great manufacturing district to the west . Marple Hall, a beautiful Elizabethan mansion, is connected with the youth, and some-times stated to be the birthplace, of John Bradshaw the regicide (1602–1659) .

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