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One Cheshire town's salt shipments grew almost 800 times over
Winsford shipped 1,055 tons of salt in 1758, 324,249 tons in 1850, and 834,306 tons at its peak in 1881, as brine pumping and canals turned salt into a mass industry.
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Original sources
- Calvert, A.F. Salt and the Salt Industry. Pitman, 1919. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69590