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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Colne, market town and township with ry. sta., Whalley par., NE. Lancashire, on affluent of the Calder, near the Liverpool and Leeds Canal, 26 miles N. of Manchester and 204 NW. of London, 4635 ac., pop. 10,313: P.O., T.O., 2 Banks, 1 newspaper. Market-days, Wednesday and Saturday; is a place of great antiquity, and as early as the 14th cent. was a seat of the woollen mfr.; its principal mfrs. now, however, are mousselines-de-laine and printed calicoes. In the neighbourhood are quarries of limestone and slate.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "market town and township with railway station" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Colne |
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