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| | ST HELENS - LoveToKnow Article on ST HELENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | , a market town and municipal, county, and parliamentary borough of Lancashire, England, 14 m. |
 | | This is the principal seat in England for the manufacture of crown, plate, and sheet glass; there are also art glass works, and extensive copper smelting and refining works, as well as chemical works, iron and brass foundries, potteries and patent medicine works. |
 | | To the north of the town are a few ecclesiastical ruins, known as Windleshaw Abbey, together with a well called St Thomas well, but the history of the foundation is not known. |
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