Stalybridge, a manufacturing town of Cheshire and Lancashire, on both banks of the Tame, 7½ m. E. by N. of Manchester; is of modern growth, and noted for its large cotton-yarn and calico factories, iron-foundries and machine-shops.
Population (circa 1900) given as 44,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Stalactite * Stamford