Mills in

Glossop Glossop is a market town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England. It is located east of Manchester, north-west of Sheffield and north of the county town, Matlock. Glossop lies near Derbyshire's borders with Cheshire, Greater Manches ...

, Derbyshire and

Tintwistle Tintwistle is a village and civil parish in the High Peak district of the non-metropolitan county of Derbyshire, England. Historically in Cheshire, according to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,401, reducing marginally to 1,400 ...

, Cheshire, England. The first mills were built in the 1760s, and were powered by the water of the

River Etherow The River Etherow is a river in northern England, and a tributary of the River Goyt. Although now passing through South Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Greater Manchester, it historically formed the ancient county boundary between Cheshire and Derby ...

and its tributaries. As the industry developed, the mills changed hands, were demolished, were converted to use steam, or consolidated into larger units. They changed their names and their functions. Water-powered mills were smaller than the later steam-powered mills found in

Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority, combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: City of Manchester, Manchester, City of Salford, Salford ...

The mills

{{TMtr, Arundel Street Mill, , , } {{TMtr, Barrack
The Hope
Top
Higher Water
Wards, Shelf Brook, , , fire, , Robert Bennett, 1807, 1879 {{TMtr, Waterside and Bridge
inc. Eleven Bay Mill
inc.Garden Mill
inc.Nine Holes
inc.Crystal Palace
inc.Old Corn Mill
inc.Chimney Mill
inc.Reservoir Mill,

, {{coord, 53.4689, -1.9724, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Waterside and Bridge
inc. Eleven Bay Mill
inc.Garden Mill
inc.Nine Holes
inc.Crystal Palace
inc.Old Corn Mill
inc.Chimney Mill
inc.Reservoir Mill", {{cite book, last=Perkins, first=Helen, title=Old Ordnance Survey Maps: Hadfield & Tintwistle 1907, date=31 March 1994, publisher=Alan Godfrey Maps, location=Gateshead, isbn=0-85054-647-8, , , Turner and Thornley
John and William Sidebottom
John Gartside and Co.- purchased 1899, 1760, 1895, 1976 {{TMtr, Boggart, Glossop Brook, , {{cite web, url=http://www.glossopheritage.co.uk/potters.html , title=Potters of Dinting Page, Contact Page, Glossop Heritage Centre,High Peak, Glossop, Derbyshire , access-date=2009-01-05 , url-status=dead , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312035130/http://www.glossopheritage.co.uk/potters.html , archive-date=12 March 2009 Glossop & District Heritage Trust, Glossop Heritage Centre, Bank House, Henry Street, Glossop in August 2002., Under

Edmund Potter Edmund Potter (1802–1883) was a Manchester industrialist and MP and grandfather to Beatrix Potter. He was a unitarian and, from 1861 to 1874, Liberal MP for Carlisle. Potter moved his business to Glossop in 1825, he rebuilt Joseph Lyne's B ...

became Potters Dinting Vale Printworks , , Joseph Lyne, 1817, } {{TMtr, Bottoms Mill
Bottom Lodge Mill, River Etherow, {{coord, 53.4703, -1.9646, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Bottoms Mill
Bottom Lodge Mill", , Submerged under Bottoms Reservoir, , John Turner, 1795, 1870 , 1870 {{TMtr, Braddock's Mill
Mouse Nest, Padfield Brook, , , , , James Braddock, 1811, 1860 {{TMtr, Brookside , , , } {{TMtr, Bridge End Fulling , Glossop Brook, , , Start of Howardtown Mill, , 4 partners, 1780 {{TMtr, Bridge Field, Gnat Hole Brook, , , fire, , John Garlick, 1784, 1875 {{TMtr, Brookfield Shepley, Glossop Brook, , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=116, , , Samuel Shepley, 1818, 1914–1918 {{TMtr, Burymewick, Gnat Hole Brook, , , , , John Shaw, 1805} {{TMtr, Bleach Works
River Etherow Bleach Works, River Etherow , {{coord, 53.4614, -1.9863, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="River Etherow " } {{TMtr, Broadbottom Mills
Broad Mills, Broadbottom , , , , , Joe and George Sidebottom, 1793 } {{TMtr, Bridge , Tintwistle , {{coord, 53.4689, -1.9724, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Bridge ", {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=77, Comm. 5 June 1899 fire
1953 derelict , , James Sidebottom
Tom Harrop , 1854 , 1899 , 1953 {{TMtr, Best Hill
Marsland , Broadbottom, {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=1189, , , , Kelsall and Marsland , 1793 } {{TMtr, Bank Bottom, Hadfield , , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=102 , converted Henry Wyatt 1895 {{TMtr, Brown's Bleach Works , Crowden, , , , , Thomas and William Brown , before 1846 } {{TMtr, Bent Meadows Mill, River Etherow
Hollingworth , } {{TMtr, Bankwood
Botany , Broadbottom , , , , , , William Wardlaw {{TMtr, Chadwick, , , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=140 } {{TMtr, Chew Wood, Chisworth, {{coord, 53.4082, -2.0145, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Chisworth", {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=128, A wool carding and scrubbing mill managed by the Rowbottoms. Mill powered by water from Alma Coal Pit., , Rowbottom , 1795 , 1962 {{TMtr, Clough, , , } {{TMtr, Compstall, Etherow , , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=139, Compstall Lily Waterwheel, , Edward and James Andrew
Andrew Bruckshaw &Co
1902 Calico Printers Assoc.
1934 Graveside &Co, before 1828, after 1953 {{TMtr, Coobes, , , } {{TMtr, Charlestown, Gnat Hole Brook, , , Became John Waltons Closed, , Charles Hadfield, 1792, 1962 {{TMtr, Clarke's Mill, Padfield Brook, , , , , William Barber, 1803, Merged with Rhodes Top Mill {{TMtr, Cross Cliffe, Hurst Brook, , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=136, fire, , John Newton, 1782–3, 1868 {{TMtr, Cowbrook, Hurst Brook, {{coord, 53.4440, -1.9323, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Cowbrook", , , , William Hadfield, 1801, 1898 {{TMtr, Dalton's Print Works
Bleaching Co., River Etherow
Hollingworth, , , , , , before 1816 } {{TMtr, Dinting Vale Print Works, Dinting Vale , , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=159, , , Joseph Lyne
1825

, 1966, see Boggarts Mill {{TMtr, Dinting Mill
Logwood, Glossop Brook, , , Passed to Potters, lower floor dye extraction,
upper floors Day School, , Wagstaff Brothers, 1804–5} {{TMtr, Gnat Hole (wool), , Gnat Hole Brook, , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=137, , John Robinson, 1790, 1884 {{TMtr, Hadfield Lodge, Padfield Brook, , , , , Thomas Thornley, before 1811} {{TMtr, Hawkshead
Roofless
Starkies, Shelf Brook, {{coord, 53.4528, -1.9353, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Hawkshead
Roofless
Starkies", , Isaac Jackson 1905, , James Starkie, 1791, 1875 1905 {{TMtr, Holehouse, , , } {{TMtr, Hodge Printworks, Broadbottom, , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=124, , , Samuel Matley
1872 Ledeboer
Harry Alister Constable, 1763 , 1953 {{TMtr, Hodge Hall Mill
Moss Mill
Bridge Mill, Broadbottom, Broadbottom , , , , , Moss Bros.
Joseph Beckett } {{TMtr, Howardtown Mills, Howardtown, {{coord, 53.4428, -1.9422, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Howardtown Mills", , , File:Glossop4817.JPG, Wood, , , standing {{TMtr, Hurst Mill, Hurst Brook, {{coord, 53.4432, -1.9271, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Hurst Mill", {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=47, , , Robert Atherton, 1799–1802, 1938 {{TMtr, Jumble Mill (wool), , , , , , John Robinson, before 1790 {{TMtr, Jubilee, , , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=126, , , , , 1887 } {{TMtr, Knott's, , , } {{TMtr, Lymefield, Broadbottom, {{coord, 53.4385, -2.0061, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Lymefield
Broadbottom ", {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=119, , File:Broadbottom 0444.JPG, John Marsland
1872 Edward Platt, before 1872 , , standing {{TMtr, Longdendale Works, River Etherow
Woolley Bridge , {{coord, 53.4615, -1.9835, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="River Etherow
Woolley Bridge ", {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=113, , , John Walton {{TMtr, Lower Mill, Padfield Brook, , , , , William Barber, 1804, 1863 {{TMtr, Mersey Mills
Rhodes Bottom Mill, River Etherow
Woolley Bridge, {{coord, 53.4610, -1.9845, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Mersey Mills
Rhodes Bottom Mill", {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=111, , , Thomas and Ames Rhodes
1928 Lancashire Cotton Corp., 1846, 1935 {{TMtr, Mill Town (Wood's Mill), Glossop Brook, , , fire, Rebuilt as Woods Mill, File:Woods Mill, Glossop - geograph.org.uk - 1211227.jpg, Thomas Shaw, 1803, 1842 {{TMtr, Millbrook
Millbrook House, Hollingworth Brook , , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=93, , , Sidebottom , 1790 , , 1882 {{TMtr, Meadow
:Silk
:Grove, Shelf Brook, {{coord, 53.4500, -1.9344, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Meadow
:Silk
:Grove", , , File:Shepley Street - geograph.org.uk - 157324.jpg, Robert Shepley , 1825 , , Standing {{TMtr, New Water, Shelf Brook, , , Meadow Mills, , Robert Bennett, 1815, 1873 {{TMtr, Old Paper
Kidfield, Fair Vage Clough
Crowden, , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=82, , , Thomas Turner , before 1847 , renovated 2000 {{TMtr, Padfield Brook, Padfield Brook, , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=95, , , Robert Lees, 1793, 1800 {{TMtr, Primrose, Gnat Hole Brook, , , , , Joseph Hadfield, 1811, 1872 {{TMtr, Red, Hadfield , , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=96 {{TMtr, Rolfe's Mill, Shelf Brook, , , Became cottages , , William Sheppard, 1784, 1807 {{TMtr, Shepley, Shelf Brook, {{coord, 53.4429, -1.9541, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Shepley", {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=51, , , John Shepley, 1784–5, 1851 {{TMtr, Shepley Green Vale, Glossop Brook, , , , , Shepley of Charlesworth, 1784,1810, 1930s {{TMtr, Station Mill, Hadfield, {{coord, 53.4623, -1.9643, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Station Mill", {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=100, Became Wilmans closed 1989, , Thomas and Edward Platt, 1855, 1989 {{TMtr, Simmondley, , , } {{TMtr, Torside, , , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=55 , submerged {{TMtr, Tintwistle
Rhodes
Paradise, Etherow
Tintwistle , {{coord, 53.4699, -1.9578, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Etherow
Tintwistle ", , Submerged 1870, , Thomas Thornley
Thomas Rhodes , 1770 , 1870, 1870 {{TMtr, Thread Mill, Shelf Brook, , , , , Benjamin Goodison, 1789, 1898 {{TMtr, Thornley Mill, Padfield Brook, , , , , John Thornley, before 1820, 1899 {{TMtr, Tip Mill, Gnat Hole Brook, , , incorporated into Olive and Partington, , Bennett Brothers, 1791} {{TMtr, Turn Lee, Gnat Hole Brook, , , incorporated into Olive and Partington, , William Kershaw
Edward Partington} {{TMtr, Valehouse Mill, River Etherow, {{coord, 53.4764, -1.9475, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Valehouse Mill", {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=72, sold for reservoir, and submerged, , Robert and John Thornley, 1795, 1867 } {{TMtr, Warth Mill, Shelf Brook, , , Meadow Mills, , Joseph Hallam, 1784–5, 1873 {{TMtr, Waterloo, Shelf Brook, , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=135, fire, , Robert Bennett, 1807, 1879 {{TMtr, Whitfield, , Gnat Hole Brook, , , , George Roberts, 1802, } {{TMtr, Wrens Nest, Glossop Brook, {{coord, 53.4438, -1.9583, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Wrens Nest", {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=125, A first mill was built here by Lord Howard but sold to the Ellisons. In 1822 Francis Sumner moved to Glossop (his step mother was an Ellison).He built the six storey mill and warehouses. At its peak it employed 1400. It had 123,000 spindles and 2541 looms. It ceased training after a fire in 1955., File:Glossop6154.JPG, Matthew Ellison, 1815, 1955, standing {{TMtr, Waterside, Hadfield , {{coord, 53.4667, -1.9719, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Hadfield " , Dr John Smith, Old Ordnance Survey Maps- Glossop 1897, Alan Godfrey Maps, ww.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/ref>{{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=105, , , Sidebottom Family {{TMtr, White, Padfield Brook , {{coord, 53.4643, -1.9669, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Padfield Brook " , {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=101, , , , , , 1950 {{TMtr, Woolley, Arnfield Brook, {{coord, 53.4699, -1.9857, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Arnfield Brook", {{Harvnb, Quayle, 2006, p=88 , before 1840 , , William & John Robert , 1840, 1953, 1953 {{TMtr, Woolley Bridge
Lees, River Etherow, {{coord, 53.4581, -1.9871, display=inline, region:GB, format=dms, name="Woolley Bridge
Lees", , This was a medium-sized mill built in 1825 for cotton spinning, in the 1840s it employed 200 hands, it became Henry Lees & Son in 1870. In 1881 it was sold to George Fawcett, a basket and skip manufacturer.- in 1890 it became an iron works, then in 1903 a dye works but in 1908 it was a picture Palace it closed in 1925 and was demolished., , Henry Lees , 1825, 1881, 1925 {{TMend All registered in Annals of Glossop.{{Harvnb, Davies, 1999, pp=31–33

References

;Notes {{reflist ;Bibliography *{{cite book, last=Quayle, first=Tom, title=The Cotton Industry in Longdendale and Glossopdale, publisher=Tempus, location=Stroud,Gloucestershire, year=2006, pages=159 *{{cite book, last=Davies, first=Peggy, title=Annals of Glossop, publisher=Glossop Heritage Centre, location=Glossop, Derbyshire, date=December 1999, pages=31–33 {{Lancashire Cotton {{Lists of mills in England {{DEFAULTSORT:Mills in Longdendale and Glossopdale Glossop Longdendale and Glossopdale *Longdendale *Longdendale

Longdendale Longdendale is a valley in the Peak District of England, north of Glossop and southwest of Holmfirth. The name means "long wooded valley" and the valley is mostly in the counties of Derbyshire and Greater Manchester. Geography The eastern part ...

Longdendale and Glossopdale History of the textile industry Industrial Revolution in England