Ramsbottom, a busy manufacturing town in Lancashire, on the Irwell, 4 m. N. of Bury, engaged in cotton-weaving, calico-printing, rope-making, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 17,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ramsay, Edward Bannerman * Ramsden, Jesse