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OSWALDTWISTLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 364 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OSWALDTWISTLE  , an

urban
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district in the
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Accrington
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parliamentary division of
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Lancashire, England, on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 31 M . E.S.E. of Blackburn . Pop; (1901) 14,192 . It possesses cotton-mills, printworks, bleachworks and chemical
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works, and in the neighbourhood are collieries, stone quarries and potteries . At Peelfold, in the township, was born (1750)
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Sir Robert Peel, first
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baronet, who, as a factory-owner, effected wide developments in the cotton industry .

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