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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 834 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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WORSLEY , an See also:

urban See also:

DISTRICT

district in the See also:

ECCLES

Eccles 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, 6 m . W.N.W. of See also:

Manchester by the See also:

LONDON

London & See also:

North-Western railway . Pop . (1901) 12,462 . Its growth is a result of the development of the See also:

cotton manufacture and of the neighbouring collieries .

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