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COLNE , a See also:market See also:town and municipal See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in the See also:Clitheroe See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, 341 M. N. by E. from See also:Manchester by the Lancashire & See also:Yorkshire railway; it is served also by a See also:branch of the Midland railway from See also:Skipton. Pop. (1901) 23,000. It stands on a hilly site above a small affluent of the See also:river See also:Calder. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Bartholomew retains some See also:Norman See also:work, but is chiefly of various later periods. There is a See also:cloth See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall or piece hall, originally used as an See also:exchange when woollens were the See also:staple of the town. The See also:grammar school isof See also:interest as the See also:place where See also:John See also:Tillotson (163o-1694), See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, received See also:early See also:education. Colne is a place of See also:great antiquity, and many See also:Roman coins have been found on the site. As early as the ,4th See also:century it was the seat of a woollen manufacture; but its See also:principal manufactures now are cottons, printed calicoes and See also:muslin. In the See also:neighbour-See also:hood are several See also:limestone and See also:slate quarries. The town was incorporated in 1895, and the See also:corporation consists of a See also:mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. See also:Area, 5063 acres.
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