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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Atherton
Britannica 11thATHERTON, or CHOWBENT, an urban district in the Leigh parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, 13 m. W.N.W. of Manchester on the London & North- Western and Lancashire & Yorkshire railways. Pop. (1901) 16,211. The cotton factories are the principal sourc ...
Vol. 2, pp. 846-846
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Atherstone
Britannica 11th... the next year of a market every Tuesday. This market became so much frequented ATHERTON— ATHLETIC SPORTS that in 1319 a toll was levied upon all goods coming into the town, in order to defray the cost of the repair to the roads necessitated by the constant tr ...
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