List of mills in Longdendale and Glossopdale

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.

The mills

Name	Owner	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)
Albion Mill	John Gartside and Co.	Hollingworth  [1]
Arrowscroft Mill	John Gartside and Co.	Hollingworth ,  53°27′43″N 1°59′33″W / 53.4619°N 1.9926°W[1]
Armfield	William Buckley	Arnfield Brook  53°28′27″N 1°58′53″W / 53.4741°N 1.9814°W	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″N 1°58′21″W / 53.4689°N 1.9724°W[4]	1760	1976	135
Boggart	Joseph Lyne	Glossop Brook	1817		199
	Notes: Under Edmund Potter became Potters Dinting Vale Printworks [5]
Bottoms Mill Bottom Lodge Mill	John Turner	River Etherow 53°28′13″N 1°57′53″W / 53.4703°N 1.9646°W	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		236
	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		211
Bleach Works River Etherow Bleach Works		River Etherow ,  53°27′41″N 1°59′11″W / 53.4614°N 1.9863°W
Broadbottom Mills Broad Mills	Joe and George Sidebottom	Broadbottom	1793		223
Bridge	James Sidebottom Tom Harrop	Tintwistle  53°28′08″N 1°58′21″W / 53.4689°N 1.9724°W	1854	1953	45
	Notes: Comm. 5 June 1899 fire 1953 derelict [7]
Best Hill Marsland	Kelsall and Marsland	Broadbottom,  [8]	1793		223
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″N 2°00′52″W / 53.4082°N 2.0145°W	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		83
	Notes: fire[13]
Cowbrook	William Hadfield	Hurst Brook,  53°26′38″N 1°55′56″W / 53.4440°N 1.9323°W[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		207
	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″N 1°56′07″W / 53.4528°N 1.9353°W	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″N 1°56′32″W / 53.4428°N 1.9422°W		standing
	Notes:
Hurst Mill	Robert Atherton	Hurst Brook,  53°26′36″N 1°55′38″W / 53.4432°N 1.9271°W[17]	1799–1802
Jumble Mill (wool)	John Robinson		before 1790
Jubilee		[18]
Knott's
Lymefield	John Marsland 1872 Edward Platt	Broadbottom 53°26′19″N 2°00′22″W / 53.4385°N 2.0061°W	before 1872	standing
	Notes: [19]
Longdendale Works	John Walton	River Etherow Woolley Bridge ,  53°27′41″N 1°59′01″W / 53.4615°N 1.9835°W[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″N 1°59′04″W / 53.4610°N 1.9845°W[21]	1846		89
Mill Town (Wood's Mill)	Thomas Shaw	Glossop Brook	1803		39
	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″N 1°56′04″W / 53.4500°N 1.9344°W	1825	Standing	191
	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″N 1°57′15″W / 53.4429°N 1.9541°W[26]	1784-5		62
Shepley Green Vale	Shepley of Charlesworth	Glossop Brook	1784,1810
Station Mill	Thomas and Edward Platt	Hadfield 53°27′44″N 1°57′51″W / 53.4623°N 1.9643°W	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″N 1°57′28″W / 53.4699°N 1.9578°W	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		225
	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″N 1°56′51″W / 53.4764°N 1.9475°W	1795		72
	Notes: sold for reservoir, and submerged[29]
Warth Mill	Joseph Hallam	Shelf Brook	1784-5		84
	Notes: Meadow Mills
Waterloo	Robert Bennett	Shelf Brook	1807		72
	Notes: fire[30]
Whitfield	George Roberts	Gnat Hole Brook	1802		214
Wrens Nest	Matthew Ellison	Glossop Brook 53°26′38″N 1°57′30″W / 53.4438°N 1.9583°W	1815	standing	140
	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″N 1°58′19″W / 53.4667°N 1.9719°W[32][33]
White		Padfield Brook ,  53°27′51″N 1°58′01″W / 53.4643°N 1.9669°W[34]		1950
Woolley	William & John Robert	Arnfield Brook 53°28′12″N 1°59′09″W / 53.4699°N 1.9857°W	1840	1953	113
	Notes: before 1840 [35]
Woolley Bridge Lees	Henry Lees	River Etherow 53°27′29″N 1°59′14″W / 53.4581°N 1.9871°W	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 beame an iron works, then in 1903 a dye works but in 1908 it was a picture Palace it closed in 1925 and was demolished.[36]

All registered in Annals of Glossop.^[37]

References

Notes

1. Helen Perkins, Old Ordnance Survey Maps- Hadfield & Tintwistle 1907, Alan Godfrey Maps, [www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk]
2. Quayle 2006, p. 86
3. Quayle 2006, p. 75
4. Perkins, Helen. Old Ordnance Survey Maps: Hadfield & Tintwistle 1907. Gateshead: Alan Godfrey Maps. ISBN 0-85054-647-8.
5. Glossop & District Heritage Trust, Glossop Heritage Centre, Bank House, Henry Street, Glossop in August 2002.
6. Quayle 2006, p. 116
7. Quayle 2006, p. 77
8. Quayle 2006, p. 1189
9. Quayle 2006, p. 102
10. Quayle 2006, p. 140
11. Quayle 2006, p. 128
12. Quayle 2006, p. 139
13. Quayle 2006, p. 136
14. Quayle 2006, p. 159
15. Quayle 2006, p. 137
16. Quayle 2006, p. 124
17. Quayle 2006, p. 47
18. Quayle 2006, p. 126
19. Quayle 2006, p. 119
20. 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]
33. Quayle 2006, p. 105
34. Quayle 2006, p. 101
35. Quayle 2006, p. 88
36. Quayle 2006, p. 113
37. Davies 1999, pp. 31–33

Bibliography

• Quayle, Tom (2006). The Cotton Industry in Longdendale and Glossopdale. Stroud,Gloucestershire: Tempus. p. 159.
• Davies, Peggy (December 1999). Annals of Glossop. Glossop, Derbyshire: Glossop Heritage Centre. pp. 31–33.