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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 125 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACCRINGTON , a See also:

market See also:town and municipal See also:borough in the Accrington See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, 208 m. N.W. by N. from See also:London, and 23 M. N. by W. from See also:Manchester, on the Lancashire and See also:Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1891) 38,603; (1901) 43,122. It lies in a deep valley on the Hindburn, a feeder of the See also:Calder. See also:Cotton See also:spinning and See also:printing See also:works, cotton-See also:mill machinery works, dye-works and chemical manufactures, and neighbouring collieries maintain the See also:industrial See also:population. The See also:church of St See also:James See also:dates from 1763, and the other numerous places of See also:worship and public buildings are all See also:modern. The borough is under a See also:mayor, 8 aldermen and 24 councillors. See also:Area 3427 acres. Accrington (Akerenton, Alkerington, Akerington) was granted by See also:Henry de See also:Lacy to See also:Hugh son of Leofwine in Henry II.'s reign, but came again into the hands of the Lacys, and was given by them about 1200 to the monks of Kirkstall, who converted it into a See also:grange. It again returned, however, to the Lacys in 1287, was granted in parcels, and like their other lands became merged in the duchy of See also:Lancaster.

In 1553 the commissioners of chantries sold the See also:

chapel to the inhabitants to be continued as a See also:place of divine service. In 1836 Old and New Accrington were merely straggling villages with about 5000 inhabitants. By 1861 the population had grown to 17,688, chiefly owing to its position as an important railway junction. A See also:charter of in-See also:corporation was granted in 1878. The date of the See also:original chapel is unknown, but it was probably an See also:oratory which was an offshoot of Kirkstall See also:Abbey. Ecclesiastically the place was dependent on Altham till after the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century.

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