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Olney, Nineteenth-Century Lincolnshire, p. 14: the stuff ball was so-named because each year the patroness of the ball chose the colour of the year, and the purchase of woollen ball dresses was meant to encourage the local cloth industry. Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Town and city 19 t h e a t r e s . T h e i m m e d i a t e p o i n t is t h a t s o a l s o c o u l d t h e s m a l l e r c o u n t y t o w n s a n d lesser places, drawing in their gentry patronage: places such as Colchester, Stamford, Salisbury, Chichester, W i n c h e s t e r , Devizes, Maidstone and Newbury.
M. L . T H O M P S O N p e o p l e w e r e a d d e d t o t h e t o w n s . B u t a b o v e all i n t e r n a l shifts w i t h i n t h e u r b a n s t r u c t u r e a n d b e t w e e n different l e v e l s o f t h e h i e r a r c h y o f towns, w h i c h h a d b e e n h a p p e n i n g throughout the centuries of urban g r o w t h , c o n t i n u e d a n d w e r e i n t e n s i f i e d in t h e t w e n t i e t h c e n t u r y . T h e rise o f t h e l a r g e t o w n s w i t h p o p u l a t i o n s o v e r 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 c a n b e s e e n in T a b l e 1 .
At the s a m e time u r b a n water-power sources w e r e d e v e l o p e d w i t h c o n s i d e r a b l e e n g i n e e r i n g i n g e n u i t y , for e x a m p l e i n t h e s m a l l t o w n s o f t h e G l o u c e s t e r s h i r e c l o t h district i n a n d a r o u n d S t r o u d , b u t a b o v e all i n t h e r i n g o f satellite c o t t o n t o w n s r o u n d M a n c h e s t e r t h a t w e r e g r o w i n g v e r y fast i n t h e c l o s i n g d e c a d e s o f t h e c e n t u r y , a n d i n t h e s e c o n d tier o f W e s t R i d i n g w o o l l e n a n d worsted towns.