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Encyclopedia Britannica



WIDNES

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 620 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WIDNES , a municipal borough in the Widnes parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, on the Mersey, 12 M. E.S.E.from Liverpool, served by the London & North-Western and Lancashire & Yorkshire railways and the Cheshire lines. Pop. (
tool
 ) 28,580. It is wholly of modern growth, for in 1851 the population was under 2000. There are capacious docks on the river, which is crossed by a wrought-iron
bridge
 , s000 ft.
long
 , and 95 in height, completed in 1868, and having two lines of railway and a footpath. Widnes is one of the
principal
  seats of the alkali and soap manufacture, and has also grease-works for locomotives and waggons, copper works, iron-foundries, oil and paint works and sail-cloth manufactories. The barony of Widnes in 1554-1555 was declared to be part of the duchy of
Lancaster
 . The town was incorporated in 1892, and the
corporation
  consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. Area, 3110 acres.


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