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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 364 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OSWALDTWISTLE , an See also:

urban See also:district in the See also:Accrington See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, on the See also:Leeds and See also:Liverpool See also:Canal, 31 M. E.S.E. of See also:Blackburn. Pop; (1901) 14,192. It possesses See also:cotton-See also:mills, printworks, bleachworks and chemical See also:works, and in the neighbourhood are collieries, See also:stone quarries and See also:potteries. At Peelfold, in the township, was See also:born (1750) See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel, first See also:baronet, who, as a factory-owner, effected wide developments in the cotton See also:industry.

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