Chorley, a busy town in North Lancashire, 9 miles SE. of Preston by rail. It has thriving manufactures of cotton-yarn, muslins, fancy goods, calicoes, gingham, and railway wagons; and near it are bleach-fields, print-works, coal-mines, and stone-quarries. It was made a municipal borough in 1881. Pop. (1891) 23,082.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 210
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