Glossop’s Lost Mills
Introduction The Glossop’s Lost Mills series was first published on Facebook in July-November 2020 In 1771, at Cromford, Richard Arkwright built the first powered cotton
Introduction The Glossop’s Lost Mills series was first published on Facebook in July-November 2020 In 1771, at Cromford, Richard Arkwright built the first powered cotton
Newton’s Mill On the 24th of November 1782, according to Robert Hamnett, John Newton of Whitfield signed a lease for a plot of land on
Simmondley Mill For every Edmund Potter, there were a dozen Joseph Lynes. Lyne lived at Simmondley Hall, owned a farm and seven cottages, and had
Long Clough Chunal Brook, Gnat Hole Brook, Long Clough, Primrose Brook – call it what you like, the vigorous stream that runs for three miles
Long Clough – Bridgefield Mill The oldest of the nine mills on Long Clough, and one of the earliest in the area, was Bridgefield Mill.
Long Clough – Lower Turn Lee and Primrose Mills According to Robert Hamnett, Lower Turn Lee Mill, also known as Woollen, Tip or Fat Adam’s
Padfield Brook – The Torside Goit If Long Clough could, at times, be a raging torrent, Padfield Brook, less than two miles long, wouldn’t have
Padfield Brook – The Thornley Mills William Thornley was a carpenter in Chisworth who, in 1783, acquired the lease of coal mines there. In the
Longdendale – Torside and Crowden Just west of Torside car park, the Longdendale Trail crosses Torside Clough, and if you look down (see pic) you’re
Longdendale – Arnfield Mill In the Industrial Revolution, when every other settlement in the area was expanding rapidly, Arnfield shrank. All that’s there now is