RAWTENSTALL  , a municipal See also:

• BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
• BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough in the Rossendale 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
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, 17 M . N. by W. from See also:

• MANCHESTER
• MANCHESTER (popularly Manchester-by-the-Sea)
• MANCHESTER, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Manchester by the Lancashire & See also:

• YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire railway . Pop . (1901) 31,0J3 . This See also:

• TOWN

town is a See also:

• MODERN

modern creation of the See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry; at the beginning of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century it was a secluded See also:

• VILLAGE

village in the See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild hilly See also:

• DISTRICT

district of Rossendale See also:

• FOREST

Forest . The cotton and woollen See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries employ the See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority of the inhabitants, and there are See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone quarries in the neighbourhood . The town was incorporated in 1891, and the See also:

• CORPORATION (from Lat. corporare, to form into a body, corpus, corporis)

corporation consists of a See also:

• MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
• MAYOR, JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH (1825– )

mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors . See also:

• AREA

Area, 9535 acres .