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. [1]
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Acre Works | Rochdale | ||||
Albert Mill | Rochdale , SD906125 53°36′32″N 2°08′38″W / 53.609°N 2.144°W | ||||
Albion Mill | Rochdale , SD931161 53°38′28″N 2°06′22″W / 53.641°N 2.106°W | ||||
Albion Mill | Rochdale , SD883103 53°35′20″N 2°10′41″W / 53.589°N 2.178°W | ||||
Arkwright Mill | Rochdale , SD908011 53°37′31″N 2°08′21″W / 53.6253°N 2.1391°W | ||||
Arrow Mill | Rochdale SD886109 53°35′42″N 2°10′26″W / 53.595°N 2.174°W | ||||
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Balderstone Mill | Rochdale , SD905110 53°35′42″N 2°08′42″W / 53.595°N 2.145°W | ||||
Bamford Mills | Rochdale , SD862127 53°36′40″N 2°12′36″W / 53.611°N 2.210°W | ||||
Beal Works | Shaw, Rochdale | ||||
Belfield Mill (partof) | Rochdale , SD918139 53°37′19″N 2°07′30″W / 53.622°N 2.125°W | ||||
Bellfield Mill | Rochdale , SD918139 53°37′19″N 2°07′30″W / 53.622°N 2.125°W | ||||
Birch Mill | Rochdale , SD833082 53°34′12″N 2°15′14″W / 53.570°N 2.254°W | ||||
Birtle Works | Rochdale , SD836124 53°36′29″N 2°14′56″W / 53.608°N 2.249°W | ||||
Blue Pits Mill | Rochdale , SD885107 53°35′35″N 2°10′30″W / 53.593°N 2.175°W | ||||
Brook Mills | Shaw, Rochdale | ||||
Brookside Mill | Rochdale , SD873061 53°33′04″N 2°11′35″W / 53.551°N 2.193°W | ||||
Bridgefield Street Mill | Rochdale , SD889131 53°36′50″N 2°10′08″W / 53.614°N 2.169°W | ||||
Brimrod Mill | Rochdale , SD888128 53°36′43″N 2°10′16″W / 53.612°N 2.171°W | ||||
Broadfield Mill | Rochdale , SD850104 53°35′24″N 2°13′41″W / 53.590°N 2.228°W | ||||
Brook Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Buckley Brook Mills | Rochdale , SD907149 53°37′52″N 2°08′31″W / 53.631°N 2.142°W | ||||
Buckley Lower Mill | Rochdale , SD905147 53°37′44″N 2°08′42″W / 53.629°N 2.145°W | ||||
Buckley Mill | Rochdale , SD907151 53°37′55″N 2°08′31″W / 53.632°N 2.142°W | ||||
Butterworth Hall | Milnrow Rochdale SD 934,122 53°36′22″N 2°06′04″W / 53.606°N 2.101°W |
1996 | |||
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Notes: Cotton Textile Paper Tubes Sonoco Milnrow's last Cotton mill |
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Burma Mill | Rochdale , SD900142 53°37′26″N 2°09′11″W / 53.624°N 2.153°W | ||||
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Canal Street Mill | Rochdale , SD933122 53°36′22″N 2°06′11″W / 53.606°N 2.103°W | ||||
Castleton Old Mill | Rochdale , SD892118 53°36′11″N 2°09′54″W / 53.603°N 2.165°W | ||||
Castleton Works | Rochdale , SD888101 53°35′13″N 2°10′16″W / 53.587°N 2.171°W | ||||
Church Street Mill | Rochdale , SD928127 53°36′40″N 2°06′36″W / 53.611°N 2.110°W | ||||
Clegg Hall Mill | Rochdale , SD923145 53°37′37″N 2°07′05″W / 53.627°N 2.118°W | ||||
Clough Fulling Mill | Shaw, Rochdale | ||||
Coral Mill | Newhey, Rochdale 53°36′00″N 2°05′42″W / 53.599896°N 2.095064°W | ||||
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Coloured Spinning Company jxqnes Mill | Rochdale , SD878055 | ||||
Crawford | Rochdale SD 910,125 53°36′32″N 2°08′13″W / 53.609°N 2.137°W | ||||
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Crest | Rochdale OL11 2NP | 1906 | 118 | ||
Notes: Architect Sir Philip Sidney Stott | |||||
Crimble | Rochdale SD 865,116 53°36′04″N 2°12′18″W / 53.601°N 2.205°W | 1886 | 138 | ||
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Croft | Rochdale , SD 908,139 53°37′19″N 2°08′28″W / 53.622°N 2.141°W | ||||
Crossfield Mill | Rochdale 53°36′29″N 2°08′42″W / 53.608°N 2.145°W | ||||
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Dale Mill | Hamer, Rochdale SD908341 53°37′34″N 2°08′19″W / 53.6261°N 2.1386°W | 1904 | 2005 | 101 | |
Notes: Dale Ring Co (1904–1920) Dale Mill Ltd. (1920–1957) Smith and Nephew (1957–1958) |
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Dicken Green Mill | Rochdale SD 901119 53°36′14″N 2°09′04″W / 53.604°N 2.151°W | ||||
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Dope Street Mills | Rochdale | ||||
Drydock Mill | Rochdale , SD927161 53°38′28″N 2°06′43″W / 53.641°N 2.112°W | ||||
Dunlop Mill | Castleton, Rochdale , SD886851 53°36′04″N 2°10′16″W / 53.601°N 2.171°W |
1913 | 101 | ||
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[edit]Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Eclipse Mill | Rochdale SD 908,139 53°37′19″N 2°08′28″W / 53.622°N 2.141°W | ||||
Notes: Five storeys, 41 by 14 bays. Ornamental water tower | |||||
Ealees Mill | Rochdale , SD942162 53°38′31″N 2°05′20″W / 53.642°N 2.089°W | ||||
Ellenroad Mill | Newhey, Milnrow, Rochdale SD930116 53°36′04″N 2°06′25″W / 53.601°N 2.107°W |
1890 | 1982 | 92 | |
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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 53°35′48″N 2°10′17″W / 53.5966°N 2.1713°W |
1908 | 116 | ||
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 53°39′58″N 2°10′16″W / 53.666°N 2.171°W |
2012 | |||
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Fieldhouse Mill | Whitworth Road Rochdale SD 897,146 53°37′41″N 2°09′25″W / 53.628°N 2.157°W |
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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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[edit]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 53°37′19″N 2°04′26″W / 53.622°N 2.074°W | ||||
Howard | Rochdale , SD936113 53°35′53″N 2°05′53″W / 53.598°N 2.098°W | ||||
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 | ||||
Linden Mill | Rochdale , Queensway OL11 2PQ | ||||
Lower Two Bridge Mill | Rochdale , SD936113 53°35′53″N 2°05′53″W / 53.598°N 2.098°W | ||||
Lydgate Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Unity Mill | Rochdale , SD846101 53°35′13″N 2°14′02″W / 53.587°N 2.234°W | ||||
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Malta Mill | F.W.Dixon | Middleton 53°32′56″N 2°10′08″W / 53.549°N 2.169°W | 1905 | 119 | |
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Manchester Old Road Works | Rochdale | ||||
Marland Mill | Rochdale SD 877,111 53°35′46″N 2°11′13″W / 53.596°N 2.187°W | ||||
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Notes: engine house is likely to have housed an inverted vertical. | ||||
Mars Mill | Rochdale SD 877,111 53°35′46″N 2°11′13″W / 53.596°N 2.187°W | 1906 | demolished | ||
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Notes: Mars was built 1906 and the engine house is for a horizontal layout. Mars is demolished. | ||||
Martin's Mill | Rochdale , SD8661 54°02′N 2°13′W / 54.04°N 2.22°W | c.1850 | 1989 | ||
Mayfield Mill | Rochdale , SD908141 53°37′27″N 2°08′20″W / 53.6241°N 2.1389°W | ||||
Millers Brook Mill | Heywood Rochdale SD 858,109 53°35′38″N 2°12′58″W / 53.594°N 2.216°W |
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Notes: Known locally as the Mop Shop. | ||||
Milnrow | Rochdale SD 928,126 53°36′36″N 2°06′36″W / 53.610°N 2.110°W | 1992 | |||
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Notes: Fire in 1992, re-built, with only the front of the original building remaining. | ||||
Moss Mill | Rochdale SD908124 53°36′29″N 2°08′28″W / 53.608°N 2.141°W | ||||
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Mutual Mills No 1 | Rochdale SD 861,111 53°35′46″N 2°12′40″W / 53.596°N 2.211°W | ||||
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Mutual Mills No 2 | Rochdale SD 861,111 53°35′46″N 2°12′40″W / 53.596°N 2.211°W | ||||
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Mutual Mills No 3 | Rochdale SD 862,111 53°35′46″N 2°12′36″W / 53.596°N 2.210°W | ||||
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Notes: Heywood. Dated 1914 although not completed until 1923. | ||||
Nathan | Rochdale | ||||
New Hey Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Norden Mill | Rochdale | ||||
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[edit]Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Oakenrod Mills | Rochdale SD 888,131 53°36′50″N 2°10′16″W / 53.614°N 2.171°W | ||||
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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[edit]Name | Architect | Location | Built | Demolished | Served (Years) |
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Rakewood Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Red Lumb Mill | Rochdale 53°38′11″N 2°14′22″W / 53.6364°N 2.2395°W | ||||
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Notes: Converted to residential use as "The Meadows" | ||||
Regent Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Riverside Mill | Rochdale 53°37′48″N 2°07′44″W / 53.630°N 2.129°W | ||||
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Roch Mill | Sudden, Rochdale SD 883,124 53°42′29″N 2°10′41″W / 53.708°N 2.178°W | ||||
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 53°39′29″N 2°04′55″W / 53.658°N 2.082°W | ||||
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Simpson Clough Mill | Rochdale SD 953,121 53°36′18″N 2°04′23″W / 53.605°N 2.073°W | ||||
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 53°39′36″N 2°04′58″W / 53.660°N 2.0827°W | ||||
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Sparth Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Spotland Bridge New Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Standard Mill | Rochdale | 1889 | 135 | ||
State | Rochdale SD 909,124 53°36′29″N 2°08′20″W / 53.608°N 2.139°W | ||||
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[edit]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 53°36′58″N 2°06′58″W / 53.616°N 2.116°W | ||||
Trows Fulling Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Trows Upper Works | Rochdale | ||||
Twin Mill | Rochdale , SD862119 53°36′11″N 2°12′36″W / 53.603°N 2.210°W | ||||
Two Bridge Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Two Bridges Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Two Bridges Mill | Rochdale | ||||
Tyne Mill | Rochdale , SD933163 53°38′35″N 2°06′11″W / 53.643°N 2.103°W | ||||
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Union Mill | Rochdale , SD892118 53°36′11″N 2°09′54″W / 53.603°N 2.165°W | ||||
Union Ring Mill | Rochdale , SD892118 53°36′11″N 2°09′54″W / 53.603°N 2.165°W | ||||
Vale Mill | Shaw, Rochdale , SD863106 53°35′31″N 2°12′29″W / 53.592°N 2.208°W | ||||
Vale Mill | Rochdale , SD901135 53°37′05″N 2°09′04″W / 53.618°N 2.151°W | ||||
Vale Mills | Rochdale , SD906142 53°37′26″N 2°08′38″W / 53.624°N 2.144°W | ||||
Valley Ring Mill | Rochdale , SD892117 53°36′07″N 2°09′54″W / 53.602°N 2.165°W | ||||
Victoria Mill | Rochdale SD863102 53°35′17″N 2°12′29″W / 53.588°N 2.208°W | ||||
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Victoria Mill | Rochdale , SD905123 53°36′25″N 2°08′42″W / 53.607°N 2.145°W | ||||
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Warwick Mill | Middleton SD872057 53°32′53″N 2°11′42″W / 53.548°N 2.195°W | ||||
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Wardle Mill | Rochdale , SD911171 53°39′00″N 2°08′10″W / 53.650°N 2.136°W | ||||
Wasp Mill | Rochdale , SD913167 53°38′49″N 2°07′59″W / 53.647°N 2.133°W | ||||
Wellfield Mill | Rochdale , SD904124 53°36′29″N 2°08′49″W / 53.608°N 2.147°W | ||||
White Lees Mill | Rochdale , SD933165 53°38′42″N 2°06′11″W / 53.645°N 2.103°W | ||||
Willow Street Mill | Rochdale , SD858109 53°35′38″N 2°12′58″W / 53.594°N 2.216°W | ||||
Woodfield Mill | Rochdale , SD859110 53°35′42″N 2°12′54″W / 53.595°N 2.215°W | ||||
Woodhouse Mills | Rochdale , SD857147 53°37′44″N 2°13′05″W / 53.629°N 2.218°W | ||||
Yew Vale Mill | Rochdale , SD901136 53°37′08″N 2°09′04″W / 53.619°N 2.151°W | ||||
Yew Vale Mill | Rochdale SD906142 53°37′26″N 2°08′38″W / 53.624°N 2.144°W | ||||
Notes: Woollen | |||||
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ The Mills and organisation of the Lancashire Cotton Corporation, a descriptive book, pub. LCC, Blackfriars House Manchester, January 1951
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Rochdale online Mills". Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2009.
- ^ "Spinning the Web". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
- ^ a b Ashmore, Owen (1982). The industrial archaeology of North-west England and where to find it. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-0820-4.
- ^ a b c National Archive Records on The Ash Group
- ^ New Ladyhouse Smallpox Outbreak 1914
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