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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 930 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAWTENSTALL , a municipal See also:

borough in the Rossendale See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, 17 M. N. by W. from See also:Manchester by the Lancashire & See also:Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1901) 31,0J3. This See also:town is a See also:modern creation of the See also:cotton See also:industry; at the beginning of the 19th See also:century it was a secluded See also:village in the See also:wild hilly See also:district of Rossendale See also:Forest. The cotton and woollen See also:industries employ the See also:majority of the inhabitants, and there are See also:stone quarries in the neighbourhood. The town was incorporated in 1891, and the See also:corporation consists of a See also:mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. See also:Area, 9535 acres.

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