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Blyth
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or a market town and seaport of Northumberland, England, in the parliamentary borough of Morpeth, 9 m. E.S.E. of that town, at the mouth of the river Blyth, on a branch of the North Eastern railway. Pop. of urban district (1901) 5472. This is the port for a considerable coal-mining district, and its harbour, on the south side of the river, is provided with mechanical appliances for shipping coal. There are five dry docks, and upwards of i 2 m. of quayage. Timber is largely imported. Some shipbuilding and the manufacture of rope, sails and ship-fittings are carried on, and the fisheries are valuable. Blyth is also in considerable favour as a wateringplace; there are a pleasant park, a pier, protecting the harbour, about i m. in length, and a sandy beach affording sea-bathing.. The river Blyth rises near the village of Kirkheaton, and has an easterly course of about 25 m. through a deep, well-wooded and picturesque valley.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Blyth'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/blyth.html. 1910.
