Annur

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?Annur Tamil Nadu • India
Annur
Coordinates: 11°14′N 77°08′E / 11.23, 77.13
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Area • Elevation	• 338 m (1,109 ft)
District(s)	Coimbatore
Population	18,163 (2001)
Codes • Pincode • Telephone	• 641 653 • +04254

Coordinates: 11°14′N 77°08′E / 11.23, 77.13 Annur is a panchayat town in Coimbatore district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

1 Geography
2 Demographics
3 References
4 Temples
5 Church
6 Textile Mills and Factories

[edit] Geography

Annur is located at 11.23° N 77.13° E.^[1] It has an average elevation of 338 metres (1108 feet).

[edit] Demographics

As of 2007 India census,^[2] Annur had a population of 18,242 Males constitute 45% of the population and females 55%. Annur has an average literacy rate of 6%, higher than the national average of 9.5%; with 54% of the males and 55% of females literate. 100% of the population is under 6 years of age.

[edit] References

^ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Annur
^ Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns. (Provisional). Census Commission of India. Retrieved on 2007-09-03.

The name Annur came from Manniyur, later transformed into Anniyur and now Annur. The myth behind the name goes like, Above 1000 years ago, when a small hunter hit a stone under a "Vanni" tree, it started bleeding. He was astonished and called the village people to look after this issue. Later they found a 'Suyambu' Lord Shiva Idol there and built a temple over there.

The famous temple is called Manneeswaraswamy Temple built 1000 years ago by Chera kings. Annur is also a cotton and textile manufacturing Hub comprising of Yarn spinning mills, 100 cotton ginning factories.It also has more than 100 edible oil mills.

Annur is one of the fastest growing towns in coimbatore district. Its sound business acumen, well connected roads to coimbatore, kerala and karnataka and diverse business oppotunities made it one of the hottest business centres and real estate targets.

[edit] Temples

1.Manneswara Temple 2.Mondipalayam Perumal Temple 3.Then Thirupathi Venkateshwarar Temple 4.Othimalai Murugar temple at Irumbarai

[edit] Church

one Main church in sathy Road

[edit] Textile Mills and Factories

1. Sri Kulandaivel Ginning & Oil Mills 2. Manneswar Textiles (P) Ltd. 3. Sangeeth Textiles Limited 4. Arun Kumar Spinning Mills 5. JG spinning Mills 6. KG Mills 7. VJ Engineering 8. Vallalar Textiles Private Limited 9. Annur Satya Textiles 10.DuraiRaja Spinning Mills 11.Jeganath Textile Mills 12.Balaji Spinning Mills