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The chief industries are malting and the manufacture of agricultural implements.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

N. of London, where Oliver Cromwell resided from 1631 to 1635; the chief industries are malting and brewing.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin