Port Sunlight. Model village built 1888 by W H Lever (1851-1925) for workers at the Lever Brothers (now Unilever) soap factory on the Wirral Peninsula at Birkenhead, near Liverpool. Designed for a population of 3,000, and covering an area of 353 ha/130 acres, it includes an art gallery, church, library, and social hall. It is now a part of Bebington, Merseyside.

Preston, Industrial town (textiles, chemicals, electrical goods, aircraft, plastics, engineering, and shipbuilding), and administrative headquarters of Lancashire, on the river Ribble, 21 mi S of Lancaster. Oliver Cromwell defeated the Royalists at Preston 1648. It is the birthplace of Richard Arkwright, inventor of cotton-spinning machinery, and was a centre of the cotton industry in the 18th century.

Oldham. Industrial city in Greater Manchester. Industries include textiles and textile machinery, plastics, electrical goods, and electronic equipment. It was traditionally a cotton-spinning town.

Oswaldtwistle is a small town situated between Accrington and Blackburn in the North West of England, it was primarily a mill and weaving town which saw the invention of the Spinning Jenny weaving machine by James Hargreaves in Stanhill. Ossy or Ossie as Oswaldtwistle is commonly known is still a mainly rural area with farming and local attractions being its main features.Click here for Ossy Site

Rochdale Industrial town (textiles, machinery, asbestos) in Greater Manchester, on the river Roch 10 mi NE of Manchester. It was formerly an important cotton-spinning town. The so-called Rochdale Pioneers founded the first Co-operative Society in England, in Toad Lane, Rochdale, 1844. The singer Gracie Fields was born here and a theatre is named after her.

Runcorn. Industrial town (chemicals) in Cheshire, NW England, 15 mi up the Mersey estuary from Liverpool. Designated a new town 1964, it has received Merseyside overspill. There are chemical and brewing industries.