page_title: Oswaldtwistle
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Oswaldtwistle / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Oswaldtwistle Library
context_page_description: Oswaldtwistle is a town within the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England, lying 3 miles east southeast of Blackburn. Oswaldtwistle is contiguous with Accrington and Church. The town has a rich industrial heritage, being home to James Hargreaves, inventor of the spinning jenny and Sir Robert Peel of Calico Printing fame. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal passes through the town and was responsible for the export of much of the areas cotton produce.
  The 2001 census recorded a population of 12,530, by 2011 this had decreased to 11,803.
context_section_description: The name is derived from "Oswald" and "Twistle". The word "twistle" is an old English word meaning "brooks meet". Legend has it that Saint Oswald, King of Northumbria passed through, giving the area its full title of Oswald's Twistle, which in time came to be Oswaldtwistle.
  However, it is more likely derived from the name of the Anglo-Saxon who farmed the land.
caption: Oswaldtwistle Library (2000)
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