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Runcorn, city (1991 pop. 63,995), Halton, W England, on the Mersey River. It is located on the Manchester Ship Canal and is the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, which is connected to the Mersey by a series of locks. The main industry is the production of chemicals. Shipbuilding and ironworks are also important. Runcorn owes its development chiefly to the construction of the Bridgewater Canal in the 18th cent. It was the site of a castle of Æthelflæd in the 10th cent. Runcorn was one of the new towns new towns, planned urban communities in Great Britain, developed by long-term loans from the central government and first authorized by the New Towns Act of 1946. ..... Click the link for more information. designated in the 1960s to accommodate overpopulation in the Liverpool and N Merseyside areas. |
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Reid, known as the ``Grim Reaper,'' is from Runcorn, England. Industry was a natural choice for Nowell, whose father directed a tannery in Runcorn, England. Davey and his colleagues at ICI Chemicals and Polymers Limited, Runcorn, England, demonstrate in the Oct. |
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Runcorn, England
