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Question
With reference to the Industrial Revolution in England, state the role of the following factor:
Availability of raw material
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Solution
England possessed important coalfields of Yorkshire and Lancashire along with the abundant iron ore areas of Sheffield etc. So the industrial clusters quickly spread near the coalfields.
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