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MINCHINHAMPTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 503 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MINCHINHAMPTON , a See also:

town in the See also:Stroud See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Gloucestershire, See also:England, 4 M. S.E. of Stroud. Pop. (1901), 3737. It lies high on a slope of the Cotswold Hills; Minchinhampton See also:Common being a See also:fine open upland. The See also:church of See also:Holy Trinity, largely reconstructed, contains many brassesand memorials. The manufacture of woollen See also:cloth is the See also:long-established See also:staple of Minchinhampton. Prehistoric remains have been discovered on the common, and earthworks are also seen; while the name of Woeful Dane Bottom, a neighbouring valley, perhaps indicates the See also:scene of ,a defeat of the Danes (c. 918).

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