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• A place in: Industrial Revolution · 6 places

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Connections · 3 of 5

• is connected to of Liverpool and Manchester Railway — The line joined the port that landed the raw cotton to the city that spun and traded it, in direct competition with a canal monopoly.
• is comparable to of Birmingham — Both industrialised fully in the same decades, one through small skilled metal workshops and the other through large deskilled textile mills, which makes the pair the standard test of any single explanation of the period.
• is supplies of The Bridgewater Canal — The canal carried coal from the Worsley mines directly into Manchester and is reported to have roughly halved the delivered price there.