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HORWICH

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HORWICH , an See also:

urban See also:district in the See also:Westhoughton See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, 4 M. W.N.W. of See also:Bolton, on the Lancashire and See also:Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1901) 15,084. It lies beneath the considerable See also:elevation of See also:Rivington See also:Pike, where formerly was a See also:great See also:forest. It has extensive See also:locomotive See also:works, and there are large See also:stone quarries in the district. See also:Bleaching and See also:cotton-See also:spinning and the manufacture of See also:fire-bricks and tiles are carried on.

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