Longridge

Longridge, a small manufacturing town of Lancashire, $6\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ miles by rail NE. of Preston, on the side of the Longridge Fell, which extends $5\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ miles NE. to the boundary of Yorkshire. Here are Preston reservoirs, and manufactures of cotton goods, nails, &c. Pop. 4101. See Tom C. Smith, History of Longridge (1889).