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Chorley is a market town in Lancashire, England, 8.1 miles north of Wigan, 10.8 miles south west of Blackburn, 11 miles north west of Bolton, 12 miles south of Preston and 19.5 miles north west of Manchester. The town's wealth came principally from the cotton industry. In the 1970s, the skyline was dominated by factory chimneys, but most have now been demolished: remnants of the industrial past include Morrison's chimney and other mill buildings, and the streets of terraced houses for mill workers. Chorley is the home of the Chorley cake. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 34,667.
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  • 3. Botany Bay Chorley
    Botany Bay is a bay in New South Wales, Australia. It may also refer to: Places: Botany Bay , a community in the North West of England Botany Bay, Derbyshire, a small hamlet in South Derbyshire, England Botany Bay, Kent, a bay in Broadstairs, Kent, England Botany Bay, London, a village in the London Borough of Enfield, England Botany Bay, Monmouthshire, an area in the Wye Valley, Wales Botany Bay Plantation Wildlife Management Area, a state preserve on Edisto Island, South Carolina, United States City of Botany Bay, the local government area in New South Wales Botany Bay, Trinity Peninsula, a bay on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica Botany Bay, Victoria Land, a bay in Victoria Land, Antarctica Botany Bay, former name of an area of Henbury, Bristol, United Kingdom Botany Bay, a residential quad...
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  • 5. Yarrow Valley Country Park Chorley
    Yarrow Reservoir - named after the River Yarrow - is a reservoir in the Rivington chain in Anglezarke, Lancashire, England, and has a storage capacity second to Anglezarke Reservoir. Construction of the reservoir, designed by Liverpool Borough Engineer Thomas Duncan, began in 1867.In 2002, several tons of fish were transported to this reservoir when the Upper Rivington reservoir was completely drained for essential maintenance work.The construction of Yarrow Reservoir was described in Wm. Fergusson Irvine's book A Short History Of The Township Of Rivington : On the banks of the reservoir is a 'face in the wall' - an effigy carved into a large stone on top of the dry stone wall, which is said to depict an inspector who worked for the Liverpool Corporation and made workers' lives a misery.Th...
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  • 8. Filling Factory No 1 Chorley
    A Filling Factory was a munitions factory which specialised in filling various munitions, such as: bombs, shells, cartridges, pyrotechnics, screening smokes, etc. In the UK, in both world wars, the majority of the employees were women. In the UK, in World War I, such a factory belonging to the Ministry of Munitions was known as a National Filling Factory. In the UK, in World War II, such a factory belonging to the Ministry of Supply was known as a Royal Filling Factory , or a Royal Ordnance Factory . In terms of organisation, they were part of the Royal Ordnance Factory organisation. Particularly, in World War II, the filling of screening smokes and other pyrotechnic devices was also carried out by fireworks manufacturers; parts of this article do not apply to these fireworks filling facto...
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  • 9. Chorley Market Chorley
    Chorley is a market town in Lancashire, England, 8.1 miles north of Wigan, 10.8 miles south west of Blackburn, 11 miles north west of Bolton, 12 miles south of Preston and 19.5 miles north west of Manchester. The town's wealth came principally from the cotton industry. In the 1970s, the skyline was dominated by factory chimneys, but most have now been demolished: remnants of the industrial past include Morrison's chimney and other mill buildings, and the streets of terraced houses for mill workers. Chorley is the home of the Chorley cake. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 34,667.
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  • 10. The Bob Inn Chorley
    A number of politicians, public figures, newspapers and magazines, businesses and other organisations endorsed either the United Kingdom remaining in the EU or the United Kingdom leaving the EU during the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016.
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  • 13. The Sea View Chorley
    There are newspapers distributed nationally in the United Kingdom and some in Scotland only, and others serving a smaller area. National daily newspapers publish every day except Sundays and 25 December, and there are also Sunday newspapers. Sunday newspapers may be independent; e.g. The Observer was an independent Sunday newspaper from its founding in 1791 until it was acquired by The Guardian in 1993. Many daily newspapers now have Sunday stablemates, usually with a related name , but editorially distinct. UK newspapers can generally be split into two distinct categories: the more serious and intellectual newspapers, usually referred to as the broadsheets due to their large size, and sometimes known collectively as the quality press, and others, generally known as tabloids, and collectiv...
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  • 15. Preston England LDS Mormon Temple Chorley
    The Preston England Temple is the 52nd operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . The LDS Church took root in Preston, Lancashire, when the first Mormon missionaries arrived in 1837. Because of its place in LDS Church history and the growth of membership in Preston, LDS Church president Gordon B. Hinckley announced the area would be the site for Britain's second temple . The Preston England Temple is located in the town of Chorley, 10 miles south of Preston, in Lancashire. The groundbreaking ceremony of this temple was on 12 June 1994. It is the centrepiece of a 15-acre complex that includes a stake centre, a missionary training centre, a family history facility, a distribution centre, temple patron housing, temple missionary accommodations and a grounds building...
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