< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

GREAT HARWOOD, an urban district in the Darwen parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, 41/2 m. N.E. of Blackburn, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1901) 12,015. It is of modern growth, a township of cotton operatives, with large collieries in the vicinity. An agricultural society is also maintained.

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