Blackburn, a manufacturing town in Lancashire, 21 m. NW. of Manchester, a centre of the cotton industry, and the greatest in the world; is the birthplace of Hargreaves, the inventor of the spinning-jenny.
Population (circa 1900) given as 120,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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