Tiverton

:Tiverton is also an incorporated village of Nova Scotia, and there is a Tiverton in Cheshire. There is also the town of Tiverton, Rhode Island.

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Tiverton is a town in the County of Devon, in England. It is the administrative centre for the Mid Devon district.

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Its name is derived from 'The Town on Two Fords' or 'Twy-Ford-Ton' - 'Twyverton'. The Town stands at the confluence of the rivers Exe and Lowman. Human occupation in the area dates back to the Stone-Age, with many flint tools found in the area. An Iron Age hillfort, Cranmore Castle stands on a hill above the town, and a Roman fort was discovered on the hillside below Knightshayes Court near Bolham, just to the north of the town. Blundell's School an independent school, was founded in Tiverton in 1604, and relocated to its present location on the outskirts of town in 1882.

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Tiverton owes its early growth and prosperity to the wool trade, which caused the town to grow in the 16th and 17th Centuries. By the turn of the 18th Century the trade was peaking, and a century of turmoil followed during the early Industrial Revolution with many riots by the Town's societies of Woolcombers and Weavers. By the end of the Century, due to imports and the expansion of industrialization elsewhere, the town's industry was in terminal decline.

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In 1815 the Industrialist John Heathcoat bought an old Woollen Mill on the river Exe and shortly afterwards moved his Lace manufactury to the Town, following the destruction of his machinery in Loughborough by former Luddites in the pay of the lacemakers of Nottingham The Factory turned the fortune of Tiverton once again, and it became an early Industrial centre in the South West. It gained a reputation as one of the 'rotten boroughs' targeted by those seeking Industrial Reform. Although small, it had two MPs representing it. Lord Palmerston, or 'Pam' as he was known locally, was one of these MPs for a large part of the 19th century. In 1848 the Chartists, a Radical group seeking to change the Electoral system, stood one of their leaders George Julian Harney against Palmerston.

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See also:

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• Grand Western Canal
• Tiverton, Rhode Island.
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