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Extract from the Lisburn Travel Guides:
LISBURN
, eight miles southwest of Belfast, is the administrative centre of Northern Ireland's second-largest local authority and its busy, pedestrianized shopping streets and packed car parks indicate recent commercial success, perhaps unknown since its days as an important linen town. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which removed French and Dutch Huguenots' freedom of worship, large numbers of them were persuaded to come to Ulster, where they founded the local linen trade. Bleach greens were set up along the banks of the River Lagan, the first of which started in 1626 at
Lambeg
, a mile downstream from...
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