Pinsley Mill

Pinsley Mill, also known as Etnam Street Mill, ^[1] is a former watermill in Leominster, Herefordshire, England.

It was one of Leominster's first mills, situated where the Pinsley Brook left the monastic precinct around Leominster Priory, and was mentioned in a lease of 1675 as a "watercorne" mill. ^[1]

At some time between 1744 and 1748 it was reopened by Daniel Bourn as a cotton mill, one of the Paul-Wyatt cotton mills built to house the roller spinning machinery invented by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt, ^[2] that first enabled the spinning of cotton "without the aid of human fingers". ^[3] Bourn's mill operated successfully as a mill until 1754, when it was destroyed by fire. ^[4]

The mill was rebuilt and returned to its original function as a corn mill, remaining in use until the Second World War. ^[1]

The mill was vandalised and set alight several times in 2010 – 2013. It was demolished in 2014.

References

1. Greene 2005.
2. Wadsworth & Mann 1931, p. 441.
3. Mantoux 2006, p. 212.
4. Day & McNeil 2005, p. 156.

Bibliography

• Day, Lance; McNeil, Ian (2005), "Bourn, Daniel", Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, London: Routledge, ISBN   0203028295 , retrieved 2013-12-07
• Greene, Miranda (2005), The Mills of Leominster, Herefordshire Through Time, Hereford: Herefordshire Council, archived from the original on 2013-12-12, retrieved 2013-12-07
• Mantoux, Paul (2006) [1928], The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England, tr. Vernon, Marjorie, London: Taylor & Francis, ISBN   0415378397
• Wadsworth, Alfred P.; Mann, Julia De Lacy (1931), The cotton trade and industrial Lancashire, 1600–1780, Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 431, OCLC   2859370 , retrieved 2013-12-07

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