Kirkham, a market-town of Lancashire, 8½ miles W. by N. of Preston. It has a grammar-school (1673), and manufactures of cotton, flax, sail-cloth, sacking, and cordage. Pop. (1851) 2777; (1891) 4003.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 439
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