Wool town
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wool-town-313-4781074
title:
Wool town
text:
A Wool town is a name given to towns and villages, particularly in Suffolk and north Essex, that were the centre of the woven cloth industry in the Middle Ages. They came to prominence when weavers from Flanders settled in the area, having been displaced by what came to be known as the Hundred Years' War. Up to that time the English wool trade with the rest of Europe was mostly in the form of the export of raw wool. However, exports of woven cloth quickly replaced the export of raw wool and thos
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Towns and villages associated with the medieval English wool industry
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wool_town
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date modified:
2023-10-01T21:03:38Z
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