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ROYTON, an urban district of Lancashire, England, within the parliamentary borough of Oldham, 2 M. N. of Oldham on the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway. Though of early origin, it is, as a town, of wholly modern growth. The cotton manufacture is its chief industry. Pop. (1901) 14,881.