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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
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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
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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

* List of mills in Greater Manchester, for other mills historically in Lancashire * :Lists of textile mills in the United Kingdom *
List of mills owned by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited The Lancashire Cotton Corporation, Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited was incorporated 23 January 1929, and became the world's largest spinner of cotton. It acquired 104 mills and closed about half to reduce capacity. In 1950, it operated 53 ...


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