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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 309 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PRESTWICH , an See also:

urban See also:

DISTRICT

district in the Prestwich See also:

PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of See also:

LANCASHIRE

Lancashire, See also:

England, 5 m . N.N.W. of See also:

Manchester on the Lancashire & See also:

YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire railway . Pop . (1901), 12,839 . It possesses See also:

cotton manufactures, but consists chiefly of handsome mansions and villas inhabited by Manchester merchants .

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