< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
CROMPTON, an urban district of Lancashire, England, 212 m. N. of Oldham, within the parliamentary borough of Oldham. Pop. (1901) 13,427. At Shaw, a populous village included within it, is a station on the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway. Cotton mills and the collieries of the neighbourhood employ the large industrial population.
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