List of mills in Derbyshire
This is a list of the cotton and other textile mills in Derbyshire, England. The first mills were built in the 1760s in the Derwent Valley by Arkwright and Strutt, and were powered by the water of the River Derwent. The abundance of water from the River Etherow and its tributaries led to mills being built in Longdendale and Glossopdale, and similarly along the River Wye in Millers Dale. As the industry developed, the mills changed hands, were demolished, were converted to use steam, or consolidated into larger units. They changed their names and their functions. Water-powered mills were smaller than the later steam-powered mills found in Greater Manchester. Parts of Derbyshire have been subsumed into Stockport.
Contents
Longdendale
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Derwent Valley
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- This includes Derby, and Belper
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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North Mill | Belper Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1786/1804 | |||
1186846Notes: The original North Mill, completed in 1786 by Jedediah Strutt, was destroyed by fire in 1803. Its replacement was built in 1804 by his son, William Strutt, on the foundations of the old mill and is one of the oldest surviving examples of an iron-framed 'fire-proof' building in the world.[1] | |||||
East Mill | Belper Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1912 | Standing | 112 | |
File:Belper - East Mill - geograph.org.uk - 736044.jpg | 1336982Notes: A fortress-like, seven-storey building, 24 bays by 11, with four corner turrets with Italianate tower, it was constructed by the English Sewing Cotton Company in 1912.[1] | ||||
Round Mill | Belper Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1816 | 208 | ||
Notes: Demolished; designed for bale-breaking. | |||||
West Mill | Belper Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1797 | 227 | ||
Notes: Demolished. | |||||
2nd South Mill | Belper Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1811 | 213 | ||
Notes: Demolished. | |||||
Junction Mill | Belper Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Notes: Demolished. | |||||
Reeling Mill | Belper Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1807 | 217 | ||
Notes: Demolished. | |||||
de Bradelei Mill | Belper Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Notes: George Brettle & Co., makers of hosiery.[2] | |||||
Unity Mill | Derwent St, Belper Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | mid 19th century | |||
1087354Notes: A corn mill converted to cotton spinning by John Strutt (1853), then furniture manufacture.[2] | |||||
1850 Gritstone warehouse | Belper | ||||
Notes: The Ward, Sturt and Sharp hosiery warehouse from 1850.[2] | |||||
Boar's Head Cotton Mills | Darley Abbey Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1782-1862 | |||
Notes: The Evans Mills produced high-quality 'Boar's Head' sewing cotton. Long Mill was built in 1782, operational in 1788, then burnt down in 1789 and was rebuilt in 1790. The top floor was used as a schoolroom for their child workers. It connects to West Mill (1821), Middle Mill (1804–05) and East Mill (1811). Separate is a Gassing Shed (1862) where the thread was singed, and the North Mill (1835). The free-standing engine house has been demolished but the chimney remains. [3] | |||||
Cromford Mill | Cromford Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1771 | |||
1248010Notes: The first cotton mill set up by Richard Arkwright to use the "Spinning Jenny" to make cotton thread. Later a paint factory. | |||||
Bath Street Mill | Derby | 1851 | 173 | ||
File:Bath Strett Mills Derby 708578 94511940.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Queen Street Mill | Derby | ||||
Lombe's Mill | Derby | 18th century | |||
File:Lombe's Mill print Darley-Factory p105.png | Notes: | ||||
Masson Mill | Matlock Bath Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1783 | 241 | ||
File:Main entrance, Masson Mill - geograph.org.uk - 1408625.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Milford Mills | Milford Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Milford Mills - geograph.org.uk - 450041.jpg | Notes: The Milford mill complex, built by Jebediah and William Strutt, spanned the A6 toll road, upstream from Milford bridge. Started in the 1780s to spin cotton, it expanded to include bleaching and dyeing mills. William built the warehouse in 1793, experimenting to produce a multi-storey fire-proof mill.The extant dyehouse near the bridge was a later more successful attempt.[4] | ||||
River Wye
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Cressbrook Mills | Cressbrook SK173726 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1815 | 209 | ||
File:Cressbrook Mill - geograph.org.uk - 157740.jpg | 1158897Notes: [5] | ||||
Litton Mill | Millersdale SK161729 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Litton Mill 0546.JPG | Notes: [5] | ||||
Lumford Mill | Bakewell Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:1346790 83515d8c.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Rowsley Mill | |||||
The mills of New Mills and Rowarth
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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St. George's Works (Wellington New Mill) | [6] | ||||
Grove Paper Mill | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Ned Mill | [6] | ||||
Rowarth Brook
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Top Mill | Rowarth [6] | ||||
Grove Mill | Rowarth | ||||
Notes: A print works[5][6] | |||||
Froggatt's Mill | Rowarth [6] | ||||
Lower Mill | Rowarth [6] | ||||
Little Mill | Rowarth SK011889 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1930 | 94 | ||
Notes: The oldest-known mill in the New Mills area, built between the inn and the brook. It was a two-storey building powered by a waterwheel. The remains were swept away by the flood of 18 June 1930.[5][6][6] | |||||
Ringstones (Alma Mount) | Rowarth [6] | ||||
Bate Mill | Thornsett SK007868 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Notes: 1889: bleachers and dyers[6][7] | |||||
River Goyt
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Torr Vale Mill aka Stafford's Mill Lowe's Mill |
The Torrs, New Mills SJ999854 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1788 | **** | 212 | |
File:New Mills, Torr Vale above 1749.JPG | 1119721Notes: [6] | ||||
Torr Mill, aka Schofield's Mills |
The Torrs, New Mills Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1838 | 1912 | 74 | |
Notes: Spindleage: (1811) 14 mules, 2802 spindles, (1848) 20 mules, 13,792 spindles, boiler by Butterley. The first mill was built in 1794 by Samuel Schofield, for cotton spinning. It was powered by water. It was burnt down on 22 October 1838 while being operated by John Sheldon. The second bigger five-storey mill was built immediately on the same site. A chimney was added in 1846, suggesting that this mill was operated by steam and water. The mill was occupied by Josiah Mellor and John Roberts until 1857, when it passed to Messrs Hibbert and Alcock cotton spinners. In June 1873, the mill was floated with capital of £4000 as a co-operative venture known as the Torr Mill Spinning Company. In 1883 a new boiler was installed. The mill became unviable in 1900 and the machinery was removed. Two further firms attempted to use the mill but it was destroyed by fire on 2 December 1912. The leat for this mill passed under the Queens Road bridge and in a trough over the River Sett, and the tail race continued downstream under the Union Road bridge. Torrs Hydro has been built on the site.[6][8][9] | |||||
Rock Mill, aka Crowther's Mill | The Torrs, New Mills, Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[6] | ||||
Hague Bar (Hague/Haigh) Mill | [6] | ||||
Strines Printworks | Strines, Marple, Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[6] | ||||
River Sett
- Also known as River Kinder.
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Hyde Bank (Beard) (Goddard Mill) | Hide Bank, New Mills SK001856 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1785 | Standing | 239 | |
File:Beard Mill - geograph.org.uk - 277906.jpg | Notes: The first mill was a woollen mill which burnt down. This four-storey gritstone former cotton mill, on Hyde Bank Road straddling the River Sett, dates from the early 19th century. The mill used to be a finishing mill for W S Lowe & Sons, but has been shut for a number of years. It has now been converted into flats and the bridge on the left is a recent replacement. The first cotton spinning mill was constructed in 1785; before that an early woollen and fulling occupied the site. Now in multiple occupation.[6][10] | ||||
Birch Vale Printworks | SK 020868 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., [6] | ||||
Garrison Works | Thornsett, SK 015869 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[6] | ||||
London Place (Watford Bridge Printworks) | Sett Valley SK 005863 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Notes: 1889: calico printing.[6][7] | |||||
Salem (Bower) Mill | SK002858 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Notes: Two-storey gritstone buildings, formerly a cotton mill of the 1780s and later a chemical works. Next to the medieval manorial corn mill.[6] | |||||
Barnes Top Shop (Torr Top Mill) (Midland Ironworks) | [6] | ||||
Grove (Wyatt's) (Barnes) Mill | [6] | 1790 | 76 | ||
Peak Forest Canal
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Brunswick Mill/Works | Newtown, New Mills SJ997849 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:New Mills, Brunswick Mill (geograph 3145693).jpg | Notes: Three- and four-storey gritstone mill building (datestone 1883) on the Peak Forest Canal. Formerly a cotton mill, bought in 1868 by the Quaker, Edward Godward 1841–1908, who became the first chairman of New Mills UDC, in 1894. Spindleage 1887: 11,000 kitting and sewing cottons. It was extended and used as a sweet factory by Swizzels Matlow.[5][6][7] | ||||
Victoria Mill | Newtown, New Mills | 1860 | 125 | ||
File:Remains of Victoria Mill, Newtown - geograph.org.uk - 1211546.jpg | Notes: 1889: Josseph Froggatt & Son, 1,000 spindles. Victoria Mill was built in 1860 and when it closed in 1985 was the last cotton spinning mill to work in New Mills. It was partly destroyed by fire on 13 March 1986 and has subsequently been largely demolished. There is a picture of it just after the fire on the front of New Mills – A look back at its Industrial Heritage (1997).[6][7] | ||||
Woodside (New Brunswick) Mill | Newtown, New Mills [6] | ||||
Albion Mill | Newtown, New Mills SJ996848 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Albion Mill - geograph.org.uk - 277892.jpg | Notes: Three- and four-storey gritstone mill building of 1859. This was the first of a group of mid-19th century cotton mills erected around the Peak Forest Canal.[5][6] | ||||
Warks Moor Mill | Newtown, New Mills | ||||
Notes: 1889: Francis Rowbottom, 8000 spindles[6][7] | |||||
Redmoor Mill | Newtown, New Mills [6] | ||||
Albert Mill | Newtown, New Mills | ||||
Notes: 1889:Bleachers and Dyers and paper maker[6][7] | |||||
Some of these mills are occupied by Swizzels Matlow.[11] One mill was built about 1843, and part was destroyed by fire in 1983. Swizzels Matlow's address is Albion Road. |
Other
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Brunt Mill | Longnor, SK085646 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[12][5] | ||||
Calver Mill | Calver SK 247745 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1804 | Standing | 119 | |
File:Calver Mill - geograph.org.uk - 347691.jpg | 1068650Notes: The mill opened in 1778, built by John Gardom of Bakewell and John Pares of Leicester on the site of a corn mill. To use Arkwright's two patents there was an initial premium of ₤7000 and an annual royalty of ₤1000. By 1785, the mill had been developed and stood at three storeys. In 1799, however, the River Derwent washed away Calver Bridge and took part of the mill with it; shortly after the mill was burned to the ground. A new seven-storey mill was subsequently constructed, and began production in 1804. By 1830 it employed 200 workers some being parish apprentices. In 1833 new, larger, waterwheels were constructed.[13] Spinning finished in 1923. In the 1980, the mill featured in Pat Reid's television drama Colditz, standing in for Colditz Castle.[14][5] | ||||
Clough Mill | Little Hayfield SK032882 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Clough Mill, Little Hayfield - geograph.org.uk - 1205355.jpg | Notes: A former water-powered and later steam-powered textile mill. Converted to apartments in 1989.[5] | ||||
Edale Mill | Edale SK 134854 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1795 | Standing | 139 | |
File:Edale Mill (geograph 2366416).jpg | 1096614Notes: This mill has now been converted into apartments. The first mill was a corn mill driven by the River Noe. In 1795 Nicholas Cresswell enlarged the building, taking James Harrison, Robert Blackwell and Joseph Fletcher as partners. A three-storey building with external stair column, the present mill was added a little later. The mill which passed to the Fine Spinners & Doublers Ltd, and cotton manufacturing ceased here in 1934. Many of the women workers came from Castleton, walking to the mill via Hollins Cross at a height of 1,250 feet (380 m). This was a climb of 650 feet (200 m); during bad weather they would sleep at the mill.[5] [15] | ||||
Haarlem Mill | Derby Rd, Wirksworth | 1780 | Standing | 244 | |
File:Haarlem Mill - geograph.org.uk - 2326070.jpg | 1335116Notes: Cotton spinning mill erected by Richard Arkwright | ||||
Hayfield Fulling Mill | Hayfield, SK055863 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[5] | ||||
Lumb Mill Lambs Hole |
Kettleshulme, SJ 988804 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[5] | ||||
Phoside Mill | Hayfield SK037859 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Derelict building at Phoside Farm (geograph 2491893).jpg | Notes: [5] | ||||
Primrose Mill | Hayfield, SK031880 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[5] | ||||
Walk Mill | Hayfield, SK037870 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[5] | ||||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Belper & The Strutts: The Mills
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Derwent Valley Mills Heritage Walks Leaflet, Belper Historical Society, 2006
- ↑ Derwent Valley Mills Heritage Walks Leaflet, Darley Abbey Historical Group, 2006
- ↑ On site interpretative panel
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 6.18 6.19 6.20 6.21 6.22 6.23 6.24 6.25 6.26 6.27 6.28 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Steven Lewis web page,
- ↑ http://www.stevelewis.me.uk/page5.php?view=preview&category=1&image=141
- ↑ Swizells Matlow literacy exercise
- ↑ Caudwell Land
- ↑ Cooper 1983, p. 99.
- ↑ Cooper 1983, p. 101.
- ↑ Cooper 1983, pp. 102-6.