Douglastown
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douglastown-282-17089762
title:
Douglastown
text:
Douglastown is a hamlet in Kinnettles in Angus, Scotland, three miles south-west of Forfar. It takes its name from the landowner who in about 1789 provided land for James Ivory & Co. to build a flax mill to spin yarn for heavy linen cloth called osnabruks (named from the German town of Osnabruk, where it was originally made. The hamlet of Douglastown was built to house the workers. The mill closed in 1834. It used flax-spinning technology invented by John Kendrew and Thomas Porthouse of Darlingt
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Human settlement in Scotland
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglastown
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date modified:
2022-05-18T06:44:28Z
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