Rochdale, a flourishing town and cotton centre in Lancashire, prettily situated on the Roche, 11 m. NE. Of Manchester; its woollen and cotton trade (flannels and calicoes) dates back to Elizabeth's time; has an interesting 12th century parish church.
Population (circa 1900) given as 72,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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