List of mills in Rochdale
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This is a list of mills known to have existed within Rochdale Borough, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Acre Works | Rochdale | ||||
Albert Mill | Rochdale , SD906125 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Albion Mill | Rochdale , SD931161 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Albion Mill | Rochdale , SD883103 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Arkwright Mill | Rochdale , SD908011 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Arrow Mill | Rochdale SD886109 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
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Balderstone Mill | Rochdale , SD905110 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Bamford Mills | Rochdale , SD862127 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Beal Works | Shaw, Rochdale | ||||
Belfield Mill (partof) | Rochdale , SD918139 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Bellfield Mill | Rochdale , SD918139 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Birch Mill | Rochdale , SD833082 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Birtle Works | Rochdale , SD836124 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Blue Pits Mill | Rochdale , SD885107 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Brook Mills | Shaw, Rochdale | ||||
Brookside Mill | Rochdale , SD873061 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Bridgefield Street Mill | Rochdale , SD889131 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Brimrod Mill | Rochdale , SD888128 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Broadfield Mill | Rochdale , SD850104 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Brook Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Buckley Brook Mills | Rochdale , SD907149 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Buckley Lower Mill | Rochdale , SD905147 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Buckley Mill | Rochdale , SD907151 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Butterworth Hall | Milnrow Rochdale SD 934,122 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1996 | |||
Notes: Cotton Textile Paper Tubes Sonoco Milnrow's last Cotton mill |
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Burma Mill | Rochdale , SD900142 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
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C to D
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Canal Street Mill | Rochdale , SD933122 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Castleton Old Mill | Rochdale , SD892118 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Castleton Works | Rochdale , SD888101 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Church Street Mill | Rochdale , SD928127 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Clegg Hall Mill | Rochdale , SD923145 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Clough Fulling Mill | Shaw, Rochdale | ||||
Coral Mill | Newhey, Rochdale Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Coral Mill, Newhey.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Coloured Spinning Company jxqnes Mill | Rochdale , SD878055 | ||||
Crawford | Rochdale SD 910,125 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Crawford Mill, Rochdale - geograph.org.uk - 630483.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Crest | Rochdale OL11 2NP | 1906 | 118 | ||
Notes: Architect Sir Philip Sidney Stott | |||||
Crimble | Rochdale SD 865,116 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1886 | 138 | ||
Notes: | |||||
Croft | Rochdale , SD 908,139 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Crossfield Mill | Rochdale Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Crossfield Mill - geograph.org.uk - 1754677.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Dale Mill | Rochdale , SD908341 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Dicken Green Mill | Rochdale SD 901119 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Dicken Green Mill, Rochdale, Lancashire - geograph.org.uk - 496791.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Dope Street Mills | Rochdale | ||||
Drydock Mill | Rochdale , SD927161 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Dunlop Mill | Castleton, Rochdale , SD886851 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1913 | 101 | ||
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E to G
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Eclipse Mill | Rochdale SD 908,139 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Notes: Five storeys, 41 by 14 bays. Ornamental water tower | |||||
Ealees Mill | Rochdale , SD942162 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Ellenroad Mill | Newhey, Milnrow, Rochdale SD930116 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1890 | 1982 | 92 | |
Notes: Five storey fireproof mule mill, brick 40 bays by 18, corner turrets , 3 projecting towers on south front. Damaged by fire in 1916. Rebuilt for ring.Triple expansion horizontal by J & W McNaught, rebuilt by Clayton, Goodfellow as twin tandem 1916. 23.5 in and 43.75 diameter. Corliss valves on high pressure. 28ft rope cylinder. The mill itself is no longer standing, but the engine house, boiler house and chimney still are complete, with the steam engine which is maintained and steamed once a month by the Ellenroad Trust.(in 1982) [3][4] | |||||
Ensor Mill | Queensway Rochdale SD 888,111 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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Notes: Engine named 'Clara'. a 750hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1915. 21"HP, 39"LP X 4ft stroke, operating on 160psi, at 73rpm. 21ft flywheel, 21 ropes. Corliss valves on both cylinders. Air pump drive from tail rod. And also a 750hp tandem compound engine by Sharples [Barrow in Furness?], 1908. 19"HP, 40"LP X 4ft stroke. Operating on 160psi, at 72 ½ rpm. 22ft flywheel, 17 ropes. Corliss valves on both cylinders. Air pump drive from crosshead. New Corliss gear and Lumb governors to both engines instead of Dobson's motion. | |||||
Facit Mill | Whitworth Rochdale SD 888,189 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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Fieldhouse Mill | Whitworth Road Rochdale SD 897,146 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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File:Fieldhouse Business Park - geograph.org.uk - 476410.jpg | Notes: Earlier mill was four storey, brick, rectangular windows stone sills and lintel. Later mill, three storey with stone decorated water tower: own branch line to Rochdale to Bacup line of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1870. By 1971 one mill was disused and partially demolished, but Bright's continued to use the other mill (with stack). Bright's were always regarded as a good firm to work for – they provided, for instance, a creche where babies and small children could be looked after while their mothers were at work.[5] | ||||
Flat Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Garfield | Milnrow, Rochdale | 1884 | 1968 | 84 | |
Grange Mill (partof) | Rochdale | ||||
Green Grove Mill | Rochdale | ||||
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H to L
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Hanging Lane | Rochdale | 1791 | 233 | ||
Notes: Opened in 1791, Rochdale's first steam powered mill | |||||
Harp | Rochdale | ||||
Hollings Mill | Rochdale , SD952139 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Howard | Rochdale , SD936113 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Ladyhouse Mill | Milnrow, Rochdale | 1877 | 147 | ||
Ladyhouse Mill | Milnrow, Rochdale SD931123 | 1879 | 145 | ||
Notes: Bales of cotton, the first from Mexico, were blamed for a small smallpox outbreak 30 May 1914, affecting blowing room operatives, and others. The mill was described as having 2 bale breakers, 2 blowing room operatives, 4 cardroom jobbers, 2 can breakers, 4 drawing room (tenter)s and 4 assistants,4 slubbers and 4 assistant slubbers, 6 intermediate roving frame tenters, 8 roving frame tenters and 90 ring room operatives. New Ladyhouse mill was the first ring spinning mill established in 1879. Palm Mill was built in 1884, then Burns ring spinning, Heywood in 1891 and Nile (Oldham) and Era (Rochdale)in 1898. Ring spinning was more labour intensive working a 1:79 spindle to operative ratio.[6] | |||||
Len Vale Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Lower Two Bridge Mill | Rochdale , SD936113 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Lydgate Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Unity Mill | Rochdale , SD846101 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
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M to N
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Malta Mill | F.W.Dixon | Middleton Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1905 | 119 | |
Notes: | |||||
Manchester Old Road Works | Rochdale | ||||
Marland Mill | Rochdale SD 877,111 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Marland and Mars Mills, Nixon Street, Rochdale. - geograph.org.uk - 622121.jpg | Notes: engine house is likely to have housed an inverted vertical. | ||||
Mars Mill | Rochdale SD 877,111 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1906 | demolished | ||
Notes: Mars was built 1906 and the engine house is for a horizontal layout. Mars is demolished. | |||||
Martin's Mill | Rochdale , SD8661 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | c.1850 | 1989 | ||
Mayfield Mill | Rochdale , SD908141 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Millers Brook Mill | Heywood Rochdale SD 858,109 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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File:Miller Brook Mill, Miller Street, Heywood - geograph.org.uk - 939300.jpg | Notes: Known locally as the Mop Shop. | ||||
Milnrow | Rochdale SD 928,126 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1992 | |||
File:Milnrow Cotton Mill - 1992 - geograph.org.uk - 637943.jpg | Notes: Fire in 1992, re-built, with only the front of the original building remaining. | ||||
Moss Mill | Rochdale SD908124 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:State Mill and Moss Mill, Woodbine Street, Rochdale - geograph.org.uk - 622120.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Mutual Mills No 1 | Rochdale SD 861,111 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Mutual Mill - geograph.org.uk - 267772.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Mutual Mills No 2 | Rochdale SD 861,111 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Foundation stone - geograph.org.uk - 283128.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Mutual Mills No 3 | Rochdale SD 862,111 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Notes: Heywood. Dated 1914 although not completed until 1923. | |||||
Nathan | Rochdale | ||||
New Hey Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Norden Mill | Rochdale | ||||
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O to P
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Oakenrod Mills | Rochdale SD 888,131 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Notes: Fulling Mill on River Roch,Woollen mill in 1848. Three storeys, Stone built. [4] | |||||
Oxford Mill | Rochdale [5] | ||||
Park Mill | Rochdale [5] | ||||
Passmonds Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Phoenix Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Portland Works | Rochdale , SD 88?713 | ||||
Pye Mill | Rochdale | ||||
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R to S
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Rakewood Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Red Lumb Mill | Rochdale Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:The Meadows at Red Lumb - geograph.org.uk - 483291.jpg | Notes: Converted to residential use as "The Meadows" | ||||
Regent Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Riverside Mill | Rochdale Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Riverside Mill.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Roch Mill | Sudden,Rochdale SD 883,124 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Notes: Flour Mill on River Roch, O.S map 1:10560 1851. Watermill: the leat ran across the present sewage farm. | |||||
Rock Nook Mill | Rochdale SD 947,179 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Rock Nook Mill, Calderbrook - geograph.org.uk - 1136439.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Simpson Clough Mill | Rochdale SD 953,121 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Notes: Site in the Cheesden brook valley on the site of a fulling mill, in 1982 it was a paper mill. | |||||
Sladen Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Sladen Wood Mill | Rochdale Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Sladen Wood Mill - geograph.org.uk - 1141983.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Spotland Bridge New Mill | Rochdale | ||||
State | Rochdale SD 909,124 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:State Mill and Moss Mill, Woodbine Street, Rochdale - geograph.org.uk - 622120.jpg | Notes: | ||||
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T
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Town House Shed Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Town House Mill | Rochdale , SD93S'73 | ||||
Trafalgar Mill | Rochdale , SD90 | ||||
Trafalgar Mill | Rochdale , SD924133 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Trows Fulling Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Trows Upper Works | Rochdale | ||||
Twin Mill | Rochdale , SD862119 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Two Bridge Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Two Bridges Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Two Bridges Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Tyne Mill | Rochdale , SD933163 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
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U to V
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Union Mill | Rochdale , SD892118 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Union Ring Mill | Rochdale , SD892118 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Vale Mill | Shaw,Rochdale , SD863106 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Vale Mill | Rochdale , SD901135 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Vale Mills | Rochdale , SD906142 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Valley Ring Mill | Rochdale , SD892117 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Victoria Mill | Rochdale SD863102 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Victoria Mill Rochdale.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Victoria Mill | Rochdale , SD905123 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
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W to Z
Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Warwick Mill | Middleton SD872057 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
File:Warwick Mill, Middleton - geograph.org.uk - 695516.jpg | Notes: | ||||
Wardle Mill | Rochdale , SD911171 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Wasp Mill | Rochdale , SD913167 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Wellfield Mill | Rochdale , SD904124 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
White Lees Mill | Rochdale , SD933165 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Willow Street Mill | Rochdale , SD858109 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Woodfield Mill | Rochdale , SD859110 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Woodhouse Mills | Rochdale , SD857147 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Yew Vale Mill | Rochdale , SD901136 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Yew Vale Mill | Rochdale SD906142 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
Notes: Woollen | |||||
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See also
References
- ↑ The Mills and organisation of the Lancashire Cotton Corporation, a descriptive book, pub. LCC, Blackfriars House Manchester, January 1951
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Spinning the Web
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 National Archive Records on The Ash Group
- ↑ New Ladyhouse Smallpox Outbreak 1914
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