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Crompton

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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an urban district of Lancashire, England, 21 m. N. of Oldham, within the parliamentary borough of Oldham. Pop. (1901) 13,427. At Shaw, a populous village included within it, is a station on the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway. Cotton mills and the collieries of the neighbourhood employ the large industrial population.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Crompton'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/crompton.html. 1910.
 
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