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RAWTENSTALL

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 930 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAWTENSTALL  , a municipal

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borough in the Rossendale
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parliamentary
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division of
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Lancashire,
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England, 17 M . N. by W. from
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Manchester by the Lancashire &
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Yorkshire railway . Pop . (1901) 31,0J3 . This
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town is a
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modern creation of the
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cotton
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industry; at the beginning of the 19th
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century it was a secluded
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village in the
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wild hilly
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district of Rossendale
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Forest . The cotton and woollen
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industries employ the
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majority of the inhabitants, and there are
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stone quarries in the neighbourhood . The town was incorporated in 1891, and the
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corporation consists of a
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mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors .
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Area, 9535 acres .

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