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SWINTON AND PENDLEBURY

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 238 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SWINTON AND PENDLEBURY , an See also:urban See also:district in the See also:Eccles See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, 5 M. N.W. of See also:Manchester, with stations on the Lancashire & See also:York-See also:shire railway. Pop. (1901), 27,005. The See also:church of St See also:Peter, a See also:fine See also:building of See also:stone with a lofty western See also:tower, was erected from the designs of See also:Sir See also:Gilbert See also:Scott in 1869. The Swinton See also:industrial See also:schools, opened in See also:February 1846, are a fine range of buildings of See also:brick with stone facings, surrounded with grounds extending to 20 acres. The manufacture of See also:cotton, and See also:coal-See also:mining are the See also:chief See also:industries. Anciently a large See also:part of Swinton was possessed by the Knights Hospitallers of St See also:John of See also:Jerusalem.

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