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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 309 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRESTWICH , an See also:

urban See also:district in the Prestwich See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, 5 m. N.N.W. of See also:Manchester on the Lancashire & See also:Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1901), 12,839. It possesses See also:cotton manufactures, but consists chiefly of handsome mansions and villas inhabited by Manchester merchants.

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