Ramsbottom

Ramsbottom, a manufacturing town of Lancashire, on the Irwell, 4 miles N. of Bury. The first Sir Robert Peel established calico-printing here, and it now has manufactures of cottons, calicoes, ropes, machines, &c. Pop. (1861) 4134; (1881) 16,142; (1891) 16,726.