Luddite rioters burned the power loom mill at Westhoughton in Lancashire, destroying one of the largest concentrations of new textile machinery in the north-west. The attack was the most destructive single act of Luddite machine-breaking and caused enormous financial losses.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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