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Saint Helens city (1991 pop. 114,397) and metropolitan borough, NW England, in the Greater Liverpool metropolitan area. It is a major center of glass manufacture in England. The city also has iron and brass foundries, chemical and soap factories, and potteries. Coal mining, although declining, is still carried on. Saint Helens has a college of technology.

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Saint Helens, Australia, UK, USA 1. USA (Oregon): named after Mount St Helens.2. USA (Washington): a mountain, Mount St Helens, named after Alleyne Fitzherbert (1753–1839), Baron St Helens, a successful diplomat and British ambassador to Madrid, Spain (1790–4).

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