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  1. Industrial town in West Yorkshire, on the
  2. river Colne, linked by canal with Manchester
  3. and other N England centres; population
  4. (1981) 123,888. A village in Anglo-Saxon
  5. times, it was a thriving centre of woollen
  6. manufacture by the end of the 18th century;
  7. industries now include dyestuffs, chemicals,
  8. and electrical and mechanical engineering.
  9.