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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1005 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIPTON , an See also:

urban See also:district of See also:Staffordshire, See also:England, in the See also:parliamentary See also:borough of See also:Wednesbury, adjacent to See also:Dudley (IZ m. S.), served by the See also:London & See also:North Western and See also:Great Western See also:railways. Pop. (1901), 30,543. Its streets are interspersed with See also:coal-mines and See also:iron See also:works. Heavy iron goods are the See also:principal products, anchors and cables being a speciality; there are numerous furnaces and See also:rolling See also:mills; also See also:cement-works, See also:brick-works and maltings. The See also:village See also:round which the See also:modern See also:town sprang up is mentioned in Domesday as Tibbington; its See also:ancient See also:church was undermined and collapsed in 1797.

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