List of mills in Longdendale and Glossopdale

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Mills in Glossop, Derbyshire and Tintwistle, Cheshire, England. The first mills were built in the 1760s, and were powered by the water of the River Etherow 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.

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NameOwnerLocationBuiltDemolishedServed
(Years)
Albion Mill John Gartside and Co. Hollingworth   [1]
Arrowscroft Mill John Gartside and Co. Hollingworth ,   53°27′43″N1°59′33″W / 53.4619°N 1.9926°W / 53.4619; -1.9926 ("Arrowscroft Mill") [1]
Armfield William Buckley Arnfield Brook   53°28′27″N1°58′53″W / 53.4741°N 1.9814°W / 53.4741; -1.9814 ("Armfield") 1828 20
Notes: submerged [2]
Arnfield Tower  [3]
Arundel Street Mill 
Barrack
The Hope
Top
Higher Water
Wards		 Robert Bennett Shelf Brook  1807 72
Notes: fire
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		 Turner and Thornley
John and William Sidebottom
John Gartside and Co.- purchased 1899 		River Etherow,   53°28′08″N1°58′21″W / 53.4689°N 1.9724°W / 53.4689; -1.9724 ("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") [4] 		1760 1976 135
Boggart Joseph Lyne Glossop Brook  1817 207
Notes: Under Edmund Potter became Potters Dinting Vale Printworks [5]
Bottoms Mill
Bottom Lodge Mill		 John Turner River Etherow  53°28′13″N1°57′53″W / 53.4703°N 1.9646°W / 53.4703; -1.9646 ("Bottoms Mill
Bottom Lodge Mill") 		1795 1870 75
Notes: Submerged under Bottoms Reservoir [2]
Braddock's Mill
Mouse Nest		 James Braddock Padfield Brook  1811 49
Brookside  
Bridge End Fulling 4 partners Glossop Brook  1780 244
Notes: Start of Howardtown Mill
Bridge Field John Garlick Gnat Hole Brook  1784 91
Notes: fire
Brookfield Shepley Samuel Shepley Glossop Brook  [6] 1818
Burymewick John Shaw Gnat Hole Brook  1805 219
Bleach Works
River Etherow Bleach Works		 River Etherow ,   53°27′41″N1°59′11″W / 53.4614°N 1.9863°W / 53.4614; -1.9863 ("River Etherow ")
Broadbottom Mills
Broad Mills		 Joe and George Sidebottom Broadbottom   1793 231
Bridge James Sidebottom
Tom Harrop 		Tintwistle   53°28′08″N1°58′21″W / 53.4689°N 1.9724°W / 53.4689; -1.9724 ("Bridge ") 1854 1953 45
Notes: Comm. 5 June 1899 fire
1953 derelict [7]
Best Hill
Marsland 		Kelsall and Marsland Broadbottom,   [8] 1793 231
Bank Bottom Hadfield  
Notes: converted Henry Wyatt 1895 [9]
Brown's Bleach Works Thomas and William Brown Crowden  before 1846
Bent Meadows Mill River Etherow
Hollingworth  
Bankwood
Botany 		Broadbottom   William Wardlaw
Chadwick  [10]
Chew Wood Rowbottom Chisworth  53°24′30″N2°00′52″W / 53.4082°N 2.0145°W / 53.4082; -2.0145 ("Chisworth") 1795 167
Notes: A wool carding and scrubbing mill managed by the Rowbottoms. Mill powered by water from Alma Coal Pit. [11]
Clough  [9]
Compstall Edward and James Andrew
Andrew Bruckshaw &Co
1902 Calico Printers Assoc.
1934 Graveside &Co 		Etherow   before 1828
Notes: Compstall Lily Waterwheel [12]
Coobes 
Charlestown Charles Hadfield Gnat Hole Brook  1792 170
Notes: Became John Waltons Closed
Clarke's Mill William Barber Padfield Brook  1803
Cross Cliffe John Newton Hurst Brook  1782–3
Notes: fire [13]
Cowbrook William Hadfield Hurst Brook,   53°26′38″N1°55′56″W / 53.4440°N 1.9323°W / 53.4440; -1.9323 ("Cowbrook") [11] 1801 97
Dalton's Print Works
Bleaching Co.		 River Etherow
Hollingworth 		 before 1816
Dinting Vale Print Works Joseph Lyne
1825 Edmund Potter 		Dinting Vale   [14] 1966
Dinting Mill
Logwood		 Wagstaff Brothers Glossop Brook  1804–5
Notes: Passed to Potters, lower floor dye extraction,
upper floors Day School [5]
Gnat Hole (wool) John Robinson  Gnat Hole Brook 1790 94
Notes: [15]
Hadfield Lodge Thomas Thornley Padfield Brook  before 1811
Hawkshead
Roofless
Starkies		 James Starkie Shelf Brook  53°27′10″N1°56′07″W / 53.4528°N 1.9353°W / 53.4528; -1.9353 ("Hawkshead
Roofless
Starkies") 		1791
Notes: Isaac Jackson 1905
Holehouse  [15]
Hodge Printworks Samuel Matley
1872 Ledeboer
Harry Alister Constable 		Broadbottom  [16] 1763 190
Hodge Hall Mill
Moss Mill
Bridge Mill, Broadbottom		 Moss Bros.
Joseph Beckett 		Broadbottom  
Howardtown Mills Wood Howardtown  53°26′34″N1°56′32″W / 53.4428°N 1.9422°W / 53.4428; -1.9422 ("Howardtown Mills") standing
Glossop4817.JPG Notes:
Hurst Mill Robert Atherton Hurst Brook,   53°26′36″N1°55′38″W / 53.4432°N 1.9271°W / 53.4432; -1.9271 ("Hurst Mill") [17] 1799–1802
Jumble Mill (wool) John Robinson   before 1790
Jubilee  [18]
Knott's 
Lymefield John Marsland
1872 Edward Platt 		Broadbottom  53°26′19″N2°00′22″W / 53.4385°N 2.0061°W / 53.4385; -2.0061 ("Lymefield
Broadbottom ") 		before 1872 standing
Broadbottom 0444.JPG Notes: [19]
Longdendale Works John Walton River Etherow
Woolley Bridge ,   53°27′41″N1°59′01″W / 53.4615°N 1.9835°W / 53.4615; -1.9835 ("River Etherow
Woolley Bridge ") [20]
Lower Mill William Barber Padfield Brook  1804 59
Mersey Mills
Rhodes Bottom Mill		 Thomas and Ames Rhodes
1928 Lancashire Cotton Corp. 		River Etherow
Woolley Bridge,   53°27′40″N1°59′04″W / 53.4610°N 1.9845°W / 53.4610; -1.9845 ("Mersey Mills
Rhodes Bottom Mill") [21] 		1846 89
Mill Town (Wood's Mill) Thomas Shaw Glossop Brook  1803 39
Woods Mill, Glossop - geograph.org.uk - 1211227.jpg Notes: fire, Rebuilt as Woods Mill
Millbrook
Millbrook House		 Sidebottom Hollingworth Brook   [1] [22] 1790 1882 92
Meadow
:Silk
:Grove		 Robert Shepley Shelf Brook  53°27′00″N1°56′04″W / 53.4500°N 1.9344°W / 53.4500; -1.9344 ("Meadow
:Silk
:Grove") 		1825 Standing 199
Shepley Street - geograph.org.uk - 157324.jpg Notes: [18]
New Water Robert Bennett Shelf Brook  1815 58
Notes: Meadow Mills
Old Paper
Kidfield		 Thomas Turner Fair Vage Clough
Crowden  [23] 		before 1847
Padfield Brook Robert Lees Padfield Brook  [24] 1793 7
Primrose Joseph Hadfield Gnat Hole Brook  1811 61
Red Hadfield   [25]
Rolfe's Mill William Sheppard Shelf Brook  1784 23
Notes: Became cottages
Shepley John Shepley Shelf Brook,   53°26′34″N1°57′15″W / 53.4429°N 1.9541°W / 53.4429; -1.9541 ("Shepley") [26] 1784–5
Shepley Green Vale Shepley of Charlesworth Glossop Brook  1784,1810
Station Mill Thomas and Edward Platt Hadfield  53°27′44″N1°57′51″W / 53.4623°N 1.9643°W / 53.4623; -1.9643 ("Station Mill") 1855 134
Notes: Became Wilmans closed 1989 [27]
Simmondley 
Torside 
Notes: submerged [28]
Tintwistle
Rhodes
Paradise		 Thomas Thornley
Thomas Rhodes 		Etherow
Tintwistle   53°28′12″N1°57′28″W / 53.4699°N 1.9578°W / 53.4699; -1.9578 ("Etherow
Tintwistle ") 		1770 1870 100
Notes: Submerged 1870 [2]
Thread Mill Benjamin Goodison Shelf Brook  [18] 1789 109
Thornley Mill John Thornley Padfield Brook  before 1820
Tip Mill Bennett Brothers Gnat Hole Brook  1791 233
Notes: incorporated into Olive and Partington
Turn Lee William Kershaw
Edward Partington 		Gnat Hole Brook 
Notes: incorporated into Olive and Partington
Valehouse Mill Robert and John Thornley River Etherow  53°28′35″N1°56′51″W / 53.4764°N 1.9475°W / 53.4764; -1.9475 ("Valehouse Mill") 1795 72
Notes: sold for reservoir, and submerged [29]
Warth Mill Joseph Hallam Shelf Brook  1784–5
Notes: Meadow Mills
Waterloo Robert Bennett Shelf Brook  1807 72
Notes: fire [30]
Whitfield George Roberts  Gnat Hole Brook 1802 222
Wrens Nest Matthew Ellison Glossop Brook  53°26′38″N1°57′30″W / 53.4438°N 1.9583°W / 53.4438; -1.9583 ("Wrens Nest") 1815 standing 140
Glossop6154.JPG Notes: 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. [31]
Waterside Sidebottom Family Hadfield ,   53°28′00″N1°58′19″W / 53.4667°N 1.9719°W / 53.4667; -1.9719 ("Hadfield ") [32] [33]
White Padfield Brook ,   53°27′51″N1°58′01″W / 53.4643°N 1.9669°W / 53.4643; -1.9669 ("Padfield Brook ") [34] 1950
Woolley William & John Robert Arnfield Brook  53°28′12″N1°59′09″W / 53.4699°N 1.9857°W / 53.4699; -1.9857 ("Arnfield Brook") 1840 1953 113
Notes: before 1840 [35]
Woolley Bridge
Lees		 Henry Lees River Etherow  53°27′29″N1°59′14″W / 53.4581°N 1.9871°W / 53.4581; -1.9871 ("Woolley Bridge
Lees") 		1825 1925 56
Notes: 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. [20]

All registered in Annals of Glossop. [36]


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Notes
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  2. 1 2 3 Quayle 2006, p. 86
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  9. 1 2 Quayle 2006, p. 102
  10. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 140
  11. 1 2 Quayle 2006, p. 128
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  13. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 136
  14. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 159
  15. 1 2 Quayle 2006, p. 137
  16. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 124
  17. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 47
  18. 1 2 3 Quayle 2006, p. 126
  19. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 119
  20. 1 2 Quayle 2006, p. 113
  21. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 111
  22. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 93
  23. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 82
  24. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 95
  25. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 96
  26. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 51
  27. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 100
  28. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 55
  29. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 72
  30. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 135
  31. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 125
  32. ↑ Dr John Smith, Old Ordnance Survey Maps- Glossop 1897, Alan Godfrey Maps, [www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk]
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  34. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 101
  35. ↑ Quayle 2006, p. 88
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