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BACUP , a market town and municipal borough in the Rossendale parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, on the river Irwell, 203 M. N.N.W. from London, and 22 N. by E. from Manchester, on the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1901) 22,505. It is finely situated in a narrow valley, surrounded by wild, high-Iying moorland. It is wholly of modern growth, and contains several handsome churches and other buildings, while among institutions the chief
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corporation consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 17 councillors. Area, 612o acres, In 1841 .the population of the chapelry was only 1526.One of the hills in the vicinity is fortified with a great
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