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PRESTWICH

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

urban
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district in the Prestwich
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parliamentary division of
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Lancashire, England, 5 m . N.N.W. of Manchester on the Lancashire &
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Yorkshire railway . Pop . (1901), 12,839 . It possesses cotton manufactures, but consists chiefly of handsome mansions and villas inhabited by Manchester merchants .

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