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WINSFORD

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 733 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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WINSFORD , an urban

district

DISTRICT

in the

Northwich

NORTHWICH

parliamentary division of Cheshire, England, on the river Weaver, 6 m. S. of

Northwich

NORTHWICH

, on the London & North-Western railway and the Cheshire lines. Pop. (1901) 10,382. In the town, which is only second to Northwich in this respect, large quantities of

salt

are raised and conveyed to

Liverpool

for exportation; being shipped in flats down the Weaver, which has been rendered navigable by an elaborate

system

SYSTEM

of locks.

Rock

salt

is procured, as well as that obtained from the brine-pools. Boat-building is an important accompanying industry, and more than half a million tons of salt are shipped annually. Owing to the pumping of the brine, large tracts of

land

LAND

have been submerged, and there is thus a constant danger to houses. The iron

bridge

BRIDGE

across the Weaver, which was built in 1856, had to be raised thrice in the following twenty-six years. The town has received much benefit from philanthropists, Sir Joseph Verdin providing a technical school, and Sir John

Brunner

BRUNNER, HENRY (184o– )

a guildhall and other buildings.

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