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