This is an incomplete list of the cotton and other
textile mills that were located within the modern-day boundaries of the ceremonial county of
Lancashire, England. The first mills were built in the 1760s, in
Derbyshire using the
Arkwright Arkwright is a surname, deriving from an archaic Old English term for a person who manufactures chests, and may refer to:
People
*Augustus Arkwright (1821–1887), Royal Navy officer and MP for North Derbyshire
*Chris Arkwright (born 1959), Englis ...
system and were powered by the water. When
stationary steam engine
Stationary steam engines are fixed steam engines used for pumping or driving mills and factories, and for power generation. They are distinct from locomotive engines used on railways, traction engines for heavy steam haulage on roads, steam cars ...
s were introduced they still needed water, so the mills were built along rivers and canals. As a broad rule of thumb, spinning mills were built in the south-east of the county, and weaving sheds to the north and west. Parts of Lancashire have been subsumed into
Greater Manchester and
Merseyside, and are not included in this list. Parts of
Yorkshire are now included in this county.
Accrington
'Home of
Howard & Bullough'
Bacup
Rossendale
Source 1891 data
Grace's Guide
Barnacre
Barnoldswick
Blackburn
'Home of
Northrop Loom
The Northrop Loom was a fully automatic power loom marketed by George Draper and Sons, Hopedale, Massachusetts beginning in 1895. It was named after James Henry Northrop who invented the shuttle-charging mechanism.
Background
James Henry North ...
Works' and
William Dickinson
Brierfield
Burnley
The home of
Butterworth & Dickinson and
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum
Cheesden Valley
Chipping
Chorley
Clitheroe
Colne
Coppull
Darwen
Earby
Dolphinholme and Ellel
Farington
Great Harwood
Great Harwood - Map of Mills
Harle Syke
Haslingden and Helmshore
Home of
S.S.Stott and Co and
Helmshore Mills Textile Museum
Helmshore Mills are two mills built on the River Ogden in Helmshore, Lancashire. Higher Mill was built in 1796 for William Turner, and Whitaker's Mill was built in the 1820s by the Turner family. In their early life they alternated between work ...
Hoghton
Kirkham
Nelson
Oswaldtwistle and Stanhill
Home to
James Hargreaves
Padiham
Preston
Ramsbottom
Rawtenstall
Rishton
Sabden
Samlesbury
Trawden
Walton le Dale
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Whalley
Whitworth
Withnell
See also
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List of mills in Greater Manchester, for other mills historically in Lancashire
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:Lists of textile mills in the United Kingdom
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References
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External links
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