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Encyclopedia Britannica



WESTHOUGHTON

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 544 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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