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Encyclopedia Britannica



MIDDLETON

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 417 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MIDDLETON , a market town and municipal borough in the Middleton parliamentary division of Lancashire, England,. on the Irk, near the Rochdale Canal, and on the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway, 6 m. N.N.E. from Manchester. Pop. (Igor), 25,178. The church of St Leonards is of mixed architecture, with a low square tower. The oldest portion of the building (the tower arch)
dates
  from the 12th century, but the main portion from 1412, and the
south
  aisle from 1524. Two chapels in it contain memorials of, and are named after, two ancient Lancashire families, the Asshetons and the Hopwoods. The Queen Elizabeth grammar-school, a building in the Tudor style, was founded 111 1572 by Nowell, dean of St Paul's, London. There are a handsome town-
hall
  and municipal technical schools. An extensive system of tramways and electric light railways connects the town with its suburbs and adjacent industrial centres. The prosperity of the town
dates
  from the introduction of manufactures at the close of the 18th century. The staple trade is the spinning and weaving of
cotton
 , and the other
industries
  include silk weaving, calico-printing, bleaching, dyeing, iron-
founding
  and the manufacture of soap and chemicals. There are collieries in the neighbourhood. The town was incorporated in 1886, and the
corporation
  consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. Area, 4775 acres.


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