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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 544 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WESTHOUGHTON  , an

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urban
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district in the Westhoughton
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parliamentary
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division of
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Lancashire,
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England, 5 M . W.S.W. of
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Bolton on the Lancashire and
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Yorkshire railway . Pop . (1901) 14,377 . There are
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coal mines in the neighbourhood, and the
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town possesses
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silk factories,
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print-
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works and
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cotton
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mills . Westhoughton before the
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time of
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Richard II. was a
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manor belonging to the
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abbey of Cockersand . It was confiscated ' at the
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Reformation, and since then has been vested in the
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crown . The
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army of
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Prince
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Rupert assembled on Westhoughton
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moor before the attack on Bolton .

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