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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"HALL, (or Hall-in-the-wood), a hamlet in the parish and borough of Bolton-le-Moors, hundred of Salford, county Lancaster, 2 miles from Bolton. It was here Crompton, the weaver, lived, who invented the mule, being a combination of the spinning jenny and water-frame, as improved by Arkwright, and for which invention he received £5,000 from parliament."