Haslingden, a busy market-town of Lancashire, 19 m. NW. of Manchester; has flourishing cotton, silk, and woollen factories, and in the vicinity are coal-mines, iron-works, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 18,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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