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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1005 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIPTON  , an

urban
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district of
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Staffordshire, England, in the
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parliamentary borough of
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Wednesbury, adjacent to Dudley (IZ m . S.), served by the
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London & North Western and
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Great Western
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railways . Pop . (1901), 30,543 . Its streets are interspersed with
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coal-mines and iron
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works . Heavy iron goods are the
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principal products, anchors and cables being a speciality; there are numerous furnaces and
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rolling mills; also cement-works, brick-works and maltings . The
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village round which the
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modern
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town sprang up is mentioned in Domesday as Tibbington; its ancient church was undermined and collapsed in 1797 .

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