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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 479 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HINDLEY , an See also:

urban See also:district in the See also:Ince See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, 2 M. E.S.E. of See also:Wigan, on the Lancashire & See also:Yorkshire and See also:Great Central See also:railways. Pop. (1901) 23,504. See also:Cotton See also:spinning and the manufacture of cotton goods are the See also:principal See also:industries, and there are extensive See also:coal-mines in the neighbourhood. It is recorded that in the See also:time of the Puritan revolution Hindley See also:church was entered by the Cavaliers, who played at See also:cards in the pews, pulled down the See also:pulpit and tore the See also:Bible in pieces.

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