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(2) Manufacturing towns | The Last of the Metal-Bashers; In odd corners of the country British industry clings on.
http://www.economist.com/news/br ... -last-metal-bashers
("In most parts of Britain, manufacturing has all but disappeared in the past half-century. * * * Britain has so few manufacturing cluster left. * * * the service-sector business that Britain does so well")
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(a) Devonshire Dock Hall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devonshire_Dock_Hall
(a large shipbuilding complex that forms part of the BAE Systems Submarine Solutions shipyard; named after the dock that lies next to it)
* Devon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon
(archaically known as Devonshire; is a county of England; derives its name from Dumnonia, which, during the British Iron Age and Roman Britain, was the homeland of the Dumnonii Celts)
(b) Barrow-in-Furness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrow-in-Furness
(a town in the county of Cumbria, England; situated at the tip of the Furness peninsula; section 1 Toponymy; sectin 2.2 19th century: Its success was a result of the availability of local iron ore, coal from the Cumberland mines and easy rail and sea transport)
(i) Furness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furness
(section 1 History: name)
(ii) Cumbria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria
("The names 'Cumbria' and 'Cumberland' are derived from the name these [ancient] people [who lived there] gave themselves, Cymru (pronounced cum-ri), which originally meant 'compatriots' in Old Welsh. The place names Cymru, its Latinised version Cambria, Cumbria and Cumberland all derive their names from this common root")
(c) The article mentions "Pendle in Lancashire by the Yorkshire Dales."
(i) Pendle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendle
(borough of Lancashire, England; The name Pendle comes from the Cumbric word 'Pen' meaning hill (or head), a reference to Pendle Hill)
(ii) Yorkshire Dales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Dales
(an upland; lies mostly within Yorkshire; The word dale comes from the Nordic/Germanic word for valley (dal, tal))
(d) The article continues, referring to "Corby, a former steel town in Northamptonshire."
(i) Corby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corby
(a borough located in the county of Northamptonshire)
Quote:
"The first evidence of permanent settlement comes from the 8th century when Danish invaders arrived and the settlement became known as 'Kori's by' – Kori's settlement.
"In 1931 Corby was a small village with a population of around 1,500 [when steel firm Stewarts & Lloyds built a large stell works]
(ii) Northamptonshire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northamptonshire
(The county seat is Northampton)
Quote: "The county was first recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1011), as Hamtunscire: the scire (shire) of Hamtun (the homestead). The 'North' was added to distinguish Northampton from the other important Hamtun further south: Southampton - though the origins of the two names are in fact different.
(iii) Northampton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton
("Northampton began life as a pre-Norman village known as Hamm tun (which means either the village by the well-watered meadow (by the River Nene) or (as Ekwall states), 'hamtun' meaning the 'main settlement' as opposed to outlying settlements) and was only ca.0.60 acres (2,400 m2). The settlement was later called North Hamm tun, possibly to distinguish it from Southampton")
(e) The article says, "In Pendle the taxi drivers wear Salwar kameez and speak Urdu."
Shalwar kameez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalwar_kameez
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