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Mill chimney's and weavers' cottages are discreetly dotted around the streets of Lancashire. An overgrown canal towpath or the occasional abandoned pithead-winding gear. Lancashire is the place where the Industrial Revolution began, two and a half centuries ago.

Industrial Lancashire, which is primarily along the Pennines, is often referred to as 'cotton country' due to the vast number of mills in the area. The damp and rainy weather of the northwest is the butt of many jokes but it is one of the reasons that the cotton industry has flourished.

While wool had been the traditional textile industry in this area, the introduction of mechanised spinning and weaving in the 1790s meant cotton manufacture became the local economy’s mainstay.

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