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Prestwich
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
an urban district in the Prestwich parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, 5 m. N.N.W. of Manchester on the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1901), 12,839. It possesses cotton manufactures, but consists chiefly of handsome mansions and villas inhabited by Manchester merchants.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Prestwich'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/prestwich.html. 1910.