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WESTHOUGHTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 544 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WESTHOUGHTON , an See also:

urban See also:district in the Westhoughton See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, 5 M. W.S.W. of See also:Bolton on the Lancashire and See also:Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1901) 14,377. There are See also:coal mines in the neighbourhood, and the See also:town possesses See also:silk factories, See also:print-See also:works and See also:cotton See also:mills. Westhoughton before the See also:time of See also:Richard II. was a See also:manor belonging to the See also:abbey of Cockersand. It was confiscated ' at the See also:Reformation, and since then has been vested in the See also:crown. The See also:army of See also:Prince See also:Rupert assembled on Westhoughton See also:moor before the attack on Bolton.

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