List of mills in Rochdale

This is a list of mills known to have existed within Rochdale Borough, in Greater Manchester, England.

A-B

Name	Architect	Location	Demolished

Acre Works		Rochdale
Albert Mill		Rochdale , SD906125 53°36′32″N 2°08′38″W / 53.609°N 2.144°W / 53.609; -2.144 ("Albert Mill")
Albion Mill		Rochdale , SD931161 53°38′28″N 2°06′22″W / 53.641°N 2.106°W / 53.641; -2.106 ("Albion Mill")
Albion Mill		Rochdale , SD883103 53°35′20″N 2°10′41″W / 53.589°N 2.178°W / 53.589; -2.178 ("Albion Mill")
Arkwright Mill		Rochdale , SD908011 53°37′31″N 2°08′21″W / 53.6253°N 2.1391°W / 53.6253; -2.1391 ("Arkwright Mill")
Arrow Mill		Rochdale SD886109 53°35′42″N 2°10′26″W / 53.595°N 2.174°W / 53.595; -2.174 ("Arrow Mill")
	Notes:
Balderstone Mill		Rochdale , SD905110 53°35′42″N 2°08′42″W / 53.595°N 2.145°W / 53.595; -2.145 ("Balderstone Mill")
Bamford Mills		Rochdale , SD862127 53°36′40″N 2°12′36″W / 53.611°N 2.210°W / 53.611; -2.210 ("Bamford Mills")
Beal Works		Shaw, Rochdale
Belfield Mill (partof)		Rochdale , SD918139 53°37′19″N 2°07′30″W / 53.622°N 2.125°W / 53.622; -2.125 ("Belfield Mill (partof)")
Bellfield Mill		Rochdale , SD918139 53°37′19″N 2°07′30″W / 53.622°N 2.125°W / 53.622; -2.125 ("Bellfield Mill")
Birch Mill		Rochdale , SD833082 53°34′12″N 2°15′14″W / 53.570°N 2.254°W / 53.570; -2.254 ("Birch Mill")
Birtle Works		Rochdale , SD836124 53°36′29″N 2°14′56″W / 53.608°N 2.249°W / 53.608; -2.249 ("Birtle Works")
Blue Pits Mill		Rochdale , SD885107 53°35′35″N 2°10′30″W / 53.593°N 2.175°W / 53.593; -2.175 ("Blue Pits Mill")
Brook Mills		Shaw, Rochdale
Brookside Mill		Rochdale , SD873061 53°33′04″N 2°11′35″W / 53.551°N 2.193°W / 53.551; -2.193 ("Brookside Mill")
Bridgefield Street Mill		Rochdale , SD889131 53°36′50″N 2°10′08″W / 53.614°N 2.169°W / 53.614; -2.169 ("Bridgefield Street Mill")
Brimrod Mill		Rochdale , SD888128 53°36′43″N 2°10′16″W / 53.612°N 2.171°W / 53.612; -2.171 ("Brimrod Mill")
Broadfield Mill		Rochdale , SD850104 53°35′24″N 2°13′41″W / 53.590°N 2.228°W / 53.590; -2.228 ("Broadfield Mill")
Brook Mill		Rochdale
Buckley Brook Mills		Rochdale , SD907149 53°37′52″N 2°08′31″W / 53.631°N 2.142°W / 53.631; -2.142 ("Buckley Brook Mills")
Buckley Lower Mill		Rochdale , SD905147 53°37′44″N 2°08′42″W / 53.629°N 2.145°W / 53.629; -2.145 ("Buckley Lower Mill")
Buckley Mill		Rochdale , SD907151 53°37′55″N 2°08′31″W / 53.632°N 2.142°W / 53.632; -2.142 ("Buckley Mill")
Butterworth Hall		Milnrow Rochdale SD 934,122 53°36′22″N 2°06′04″W / 53.606°N 2.101°W / 53.606; -2.101 ("Butterworth Hall")	1996
	Notes: Cotton Textile Paper Tubes Sonoco Milnrow's last Cotton mill
Burma Mill		Rochdale , SD900142 53°37′26″N 2°09′11″W / 53.624°N 2.153°W / 53.624; -2.153 ("Burma Mill")
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C to D

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Served (Years)

Canal Street Mill		Rochdale , SD933122 53°36′22″N 2°06′11″W / 53.606°N 2.103°W / 53.606; -2.103 ("Canal Street Mill")
Castleton Old Mill		Rochdale , SD892118 53°36′11″N 2°09′54″W / 53.603°N 2.165°W / 53.603; -2.165 ("Castleton Old Mill")
Castleton Works		Rochdale , SD888101 53°35′13″N 2°10′16″W / 53.587°N 2.171°W / 53.587; -2.171 ("Castleton Works ")
Church Street Mill		Rochdale , SD928127 53°36′40″N 2°06′36″W / 53.611°N 2.110°W / 53.611; -2.110 ("Church Street Mill")
Clegg Hall Mill		Rochdale , SD923145 53°37′37″N 2°07′05″W / 53.627°N 2.118°W / 53.627; -2.118 ("Clegg Hall Mill")
Clough Fulling Mill		Shaw, Rochdale
Coral Mill		Newhey, Rochdale 53°36′00″N 2°05′42″W / 53.599896°N 2.095064°W / 53.599896; -2.095064 ("Coral Mill")
	Notes:
Coloured Spinning Company jxqnes Mill		Rochdale , SD878055
Crawford		Rochdale SD 910,125 53°36′32″N 2°08′13″W / 53.609°N 2.137°W / 53.609; -2.137 ("Crawford")
	Notes:
Crest		Rochdale OL11 2NP	1906	110
	Notes: Architect Sir Philip Sidney Stott
Crimble		Rochdale SD 865,116 53°36′04″N 2°12′18″W / 53.601°N 2.205°W / 53.601; -2.205 ("Crimble")	1886	130
	Notes:
Croft		Rochdale , SD 908,139 53°37′19″N 2°08′28″W / 53.622°N 2.141°W / 53.622; -2.141 ("Croft")
Crossfield Mill		Rochdale 53°36′29″N 2°08′42″W / 53.608°N 2.145°W / 53.608; -2.145 ("Crossfield")
	Notes:
Dale Mill		Rochdale , SD908341 53°37′34″N 2°08′19″W / 53.6261°N 2.1386°W / 53.6261; -2.1386 ("Dale Mill")
Dicken Green Mill		Rochdale SD 901119 53°36′14″N 2°09′04″W / 53.604°N 2.151°W / 53.604; -2.151 ("Dicken Green Mill")
	Notes:
Dope Street Mills		Rochdale
Drydock Mill		Rochdale , SD927161 53°38′28″N 2°06′43″W / 53.641°N 2.112°W / 53.641; -2.112 ("Drydock Mill")
Dunlop Mill		Castleton, Rochdale , SD886851 53°36′04″N 2°10′16″W / 53.601°N 2.171°W / 53.601; -2.171 ("Dunlop Mill")	1913	101
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E to G

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)

Eclipse Mill		Rochdale SD 908,139 53°37′19″N 2°08′28″W / 53.622°N 2.141°W / 53.622; -2.141 ("Eclipse Mill")
	Notes: Five storeys, 41 by 14 bays. Ornamental water tower
Ealees Mill		Rochdale , SD942162 53°38′31″N 2°05′20″W / 53.642°N 2.089°W / 53.642; -2.089 ("Ealees Mill")
Ellenroad Mill		Newhey, Milnrow, Rochdale SD930116 53°36′04″N 2°06′25″W / 53.601°N 2.107°W / 53.601; -2.107 ("Ellenroad Mill")	1890	1982	92
	Notes: Five storey fireproof mule mill, brick 40 bays by 18, corner turrets , 3 projecting towers on south front. Damaged by fire in 1916. Rebuilt for ring.Triple expansion horizontal by J & W McNaught, rebuilt by Clayton, Goodfellow as twin tandem 1916. 23.5 in and 43.75 diameter. Corliss valves on high pressure. 28ft rope cylinder. The mill itself is no longer standing, but the engine house, boiler house and chimney still are complete, with the steam engine which is maintained and steamed once a month by the Ellenroad Trust.(in 1982) ^[3]^[4]
Ensor Mill		Queensway Rochdale SD 888,111 53°35′48″N 2°10′17″W / 53.5966°N 2.1713°W / 53.5966; -2.1713 ("Ensor Mill")
	Notes: Engine named 'Clara'. a 750hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1915. 21"HP, 39"LP X 4ft stroke, operating on 160psi, at 73rpm. 21ft flywheel, 21 ropes. Corliss valves on both cylinders. Air pump drive from tail rod. And also a 750hp tandem compound engine by Sharples [Barrow in Furness?], 1908. 19"HP, 40"LP X 4ft stroke. Operating on 160psi, at 72 ½ rpm. 22ft flywheel, 17 ropes. Corliss valves on both cylinders. Air pump drive from crosshead. New Corliss gear and Lumb governors to both engines instead of Dobson's motion.
Facit Mill		Whitworth Rochdale SD 888,189 53°39′58″N 2°10′16″W / 53.666°N 2.171°W / 53.666; -2.171 ("Facit Mill")
	Notes:
Fieldhouse Mill		Whitworth Road Rochdale SD 897,146 53°37′41″N 2°09′25″W / 53.628°N 2.157°W / 53.628; -2.157 ("Fieldhouse Mill")
	Notes: Earlier mill was four storey, brick, rectangular windows stone sills and lintel. Later mill, three storey with stone decorated water tower: own branch line to Rochdale to Bacup line of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1870. By 1971 one mill was disused and partially demolished, but Bright's continued to use the other mill (with stack). Bright's were always regarded as a good firm to work for – they provided, for instance, a creche where babies and small children could be looked after while their mothers were at work.^[5]
Flat Mill		Rochdale
Garfield		Milnrow, Rochdale	1884	1968	84
Grange Mill (partof)		Rochdale
Green Grove Mill		Rochdale
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H to L

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Served (Years)

Hanging Lane		Rochdale	1791	225
	Notes: Opened in 1791, Rochdale's first steam powered mill
Harp		Rochdale
Hollings Mill		Rochdale , SD952139 53°37′19″N 2°04′26″W / 53.622°N 2.074°W / 53.622; -2.074 ("Hollings Mill")
Howard		Rochdale , SD936113 53°35′53″N 2°05′53″W / 53.598°N 2.098°W / 53.598; -2.098 ("Howard")
Ladyhouse Mill		Milnrow, Rochdale	1877	139
Ladyhouse Mill		Milnrow, Rochdale SD931123	1879	137
	Notes: Bales of cotton, the first from Mexico, were blamed for a small smallpox outbreak 30 May 1914, affecting blowing room operatives, and others. The mill was described as having 2 bale breakers, 2 blowing room operatives, 4 cardroom jobbers, 2 can breakers, 4 drawing room (tenter)s and 4 assistants,4 slubbers and 4 assistant slubbers, 6 intermediate roving frame tenters, 8 roving frame tenters and 90 ring room operatives. New Ladyhouse mill was the first ring spinning mill established in 1879. Palm Mill was built in 1884, then Burns ring spinning, Heywood in 1891 and Nile (Oldham) and Era (Rochdale)in 1898. Ring spinning was more labour intensive working a 1:79 spindle to operative ratio.^[6]
Len Vale Mill		Rochdale
Lower Two Bridge Mill		Rochdale , SD936113 53°35′53″N 2°05′53″W / 53.598°N 2.098°W / 53.598; -2.098 ("Lower Two Bridge Mill")
Lydgate Mill		Rochdale
Unity Mill		Rochdale , SD846101 53°35′13″N 2°14′02″W / 53.587°N 2.234°W / 53.587; -2.234 ("Lynity Mill")
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M to N

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)

Malta Mill	F.W.Dixon	Middleton 53°32′56″N 2°10′08″W / 53.549°N 2.169°W / 53.549; -2.169 ("Malta Mill")	1905		111
	Notes:
Manchester Old Road Works		Rochdale
Marland Mill		Rochdale SD 877,111 53°35′46″N 2°11′13″W / 53.596°N 2.187°W / 53.596; -2.187 ("Marland Mill")
	Notes: engine house is likely to have housed an inverted vertical.
Mars Mill		Rochdale SD 877,111 53°35′46″N 2°11′13″W / 53.596°N 2.187°W / 53.596; -2.187 ("Mars Mill")	1906	demolished
	Notes: Mars was built 1906 and the engine house is for a horizontal layout. Mars is demolished.
Martin's Mill		Rochdale , SD8661 54°02′N 2°13′W / 54.04°N 2.22°W / 54.04; -2.22 ("Martin's Mill")	c.1850	1989
Mayfield Mill		Rochdale , SD908141 53°37′27″N 2°08′20″W / 53.6241°N 2.1389°W / 53.6241; -2.1389 ("Mayfield Mill")
Millers Brook Mill		Heywood Rochdale SD 858,109 53°35′38″N 2°12′58″W / 53.594°N 2.216°W / 53.594; -2.216 ("Millers Brook Mill")
	Notes: Known locally as the Mop Shop.
Milnrow		Rochdale SD 928,126 53°36′36″N 2°06′36″W / 53.610°N 2.110°W / 53.610; -2.110 ("Milnrow")		1992
	Notes: Fire in 1992, re-built, with only the front of the original building remaining.
Moss Mill		Rochdale SD908124 53°36′29″N 2°08′28″W / 53.608°N 2.141°W / 53.608; -2.141 ("Moss Mill")
	Notes:
Mutual Mills No 1		Rochdale SD 861,111 53°35′46″N 2°12′40″W / 53.596°N 2.211°W / 53.596; -2.211 ("Mutual Mills No 1")
	Notes:
Mutual Mills No 2		Rochdale SD 861,111 53°35′46″N 2°12′40″W / 53.596°N 2.211°W / 53.596; -2.211 ("Mutual Mills No 2")
	Notes:
Mutual Mills No 3		Rochdale SD 862,111 53°35′46″N 2°12′36″W / 53.596°N 2.210°W / 53.596; -2.210 ("Mutual Mills No 3")
	Notes: Heywood. Dated 1914 although not completed until 1923.
Nathan		Rochdale
New Hey Mill		Rochdale
Norden Mill		Rochdale
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O to P

Name	Architect	Location

Oakenrod Mills		Rochdale SD 888,131 53°36′50″N 2°10′16″W / 53.614°N 2.171°W / 53.614; -2.171 ("Oakenrod Mills")
	Notes: Fulling Mill on River Roch,Woollen mill in 1848. Three storeys, Stone built. ^[4]
Oxford Mill		Rochdale ^[5]
Park Mill		Rochdale ^[5]
Passmonds Mill		Rochdale
Phoenix Mill		Rochdale
Portland Works		Rochdale , SD 88?713
Pye Mill		Rochdale
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R to S

Name	Architect	Location

Rakewood Mill		Rochdale
Red Lumb Mill		Rochdale 53°38′11″N 2°14′22″W / 53.6364°N 2.2395°W / 53.6364; -2.2395 ("Red Lumb Mill")
	Notes: Converted to residential use as "The Meadows"
Regent Mill		Rochdale
Riverside Mill		Rochdale 53°37′48″N 2°07′44″W / 53.630°N 2.129°W / 53.630; -2.129 ("Riverside Mill")
	Notes:
Roch Mill		Sudden,Rochdale SD 883,124 53°42′29″N 2°10′41″W / 53.708°N 2.178°W / 53.708; -2.178 ("Roch Mills")
	Notes: Flour Mill on River Roch, O.S map 1:10560 1851. Watermill: the leat ran across the present sewage farm.
Rock Nook Mill		Rochdale SD 947,179 53°39′29″N 2°04′55″W / 53.658°N 2.082°W / 53.658; -2.082 ("Rock Nook Mill")
	Notes:
Simpson Clough Mill		Rochdale SD 953,121 53°36′18″N 2°04′23″W / 53.605°N 2.073°W / 53.605; -2.073 ("Simpson Clough Mill")
	Notes: Site in the Cheesden brook valley on the site of a fulling mill, in 1982 it was a paper mill.
Sladen Mill		Rochdale
Sladen Wood Mill		Rochdale 53°39′36″N 2°04′58″W / 53.660°N 2.0827°W / 53.660; -2.0827 ("Sladen Wood Mill")
	Notes:
Spotland Bridge New Mill		Rochdale
State		Rochdale SD 909,124 53°36′29″N 2°08′20″W / 53.608°N 2.139°W / 53.608; -2.139 ("State")
	Notes:
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T

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)

Town House Shed Mill		Rochdale
Town House Mill		Rochdale , SD93S'73
Trafalgar Mill		Rochdale , SD90
Trafalgar Mill		Rochdale , SD924133 53°36′58″N 2°06′58″W / 53.616°N 2.116°W / 53.616; -2.116 ("Trafalgar Mill")
Trows Fulling Mill		Rochdale
Trows Upper Works		Rochdale
Twin Mill		Rochdale , SD862119 53°36′11″N 2°12′36″W / 53.603°N 2.210°W / 53.603; -2.210 ("Twin Mill")
Two Bridge Mill		Rochdale
Two Bridges Mill		Rochdale
Two Bridges Mill		Rochdale
Tyne Mill		Rochdale , SD933163 53°38′35″N 2°06′11″W / 53.643°N 2.103°W / 53.643; -2.103 ("Tyne Mill")
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U to V

Name	Architect	Location

Union Mill		Rochdale , SD892118 53°36′11″N 2°09′54″W / 53.603°N 2.165°W / 53.603; -2.165 ("Union Mill")
Union Ring Mill		Rochdale , SD892118 53°36′11″N 2°09′54″W / 53.603°N 2.165°W / 53.603; -2.165 ("Union Ring Mill")
Vale Mill		Shaw,Rochdale , SD863106 53°35′31″N 2°12′29″W / 53.592°N 2.208°W / 53.592; -2.208 ("Vale Mill")
Vale Mill		Rochdale , SD901135 53°37′05″N 2°09′04″W / 53.618°N 2.151°W / 53.618; -2.151 ("Vale Mill")
Vale Mills		Rochdale , SD906142 53°37′26″N 2°08′38″W / 53.624°N 2.144°W / 53.624; -2.144 ("Vale Mills")
Valley Ring Mill		Rochdale , SD892117 53°36′07″N 2°09′54″W / 53.602°N 2.165°W / 53.602; -2.165 ("Valley Ring Mill")
Victoria Mill		Rochdale SD863102 53°35′17″N 2°12′29″W / 53.588°N 2.208°W / 53.588; -2.208 ("Victoria Mill")
	Notes:
Victoria Mill		Rochdale , SD905123 53°36′25″N 2°08′42″W / 53.607°N 2.145°W / 53.607; -2.145 ("Victoria Mill")
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W to Z

Name	Architect	Location

Warwick Mill		Middleton SD872057 53°32′53″N 2°11′42″W / 53.548°N 2.195°W / 53.548; -2.195 ("Warwick Mill")
	Notes:
Wardle Mill		Rochdale , SD911171 53°39′00″N 2°08′10″W / 53.650°N 2.136°W / 53.650; -2.136 ("Wardle Mill")
Wasp Mill		Rochdale , SD913167 53°38′49″N 2°07′59″W / 53.647°N 2.133°W / 53.647; -2.133 ("Wasp Mill")
Wellfield Mill		Rochdale , SD904124 53°36′29″N 2°08′49″W / 53.608°N 2.147°W / 53.608; -2.147 ("Wellfield Mill")
White Lees Mill		Rochdale , SD933165 53°38′42″N 2°06′11″W / 53.645°N 2.103°W / 53.645; -2.103 ("White Lees Mill")
Willow Street Mill		Rochdale , SD858109 53°35′38″N 2°12′58″W / 53.594°N 2.216°W / 53.594; -2.216 ("Willow Street Mill")
Woodfield Mill		Rochdale , SD859110 53°35′42″N 2°12′54″W / 53.595°N 2.215°W / 53.595; -2.215 ("Woodfield Mill")
Woodhouse Mills		Rochdale , SD857147 53°37′44″N 2°13′05″W / 53.629°N 2.218°W / 53.629; -2.218 ("Woodhouse Mills")
Yew Vale Mill		Rochdale , SD901136 53°37′08″N 2°09′04″W / 53.619°N 2.151°W / 53.619; -2.151 ("Yew Vale Mill")
Yew Vale Mill		Rochdale SD906142 53°37′26″N 2°08′38″W / 53.624°N 2.144°W / 53.624; -2.144 ("Yew Vale Mill")
	Notes: Woollen
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References

↑ The Mills and organisation of the Lancashire Cotton Corporation, a descriptive book, pub. LCC, Blackfriars House Manchester, January 1951
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Rochdale online Mills". Retrieved 2009-01-29.
↑ Spinning the Web
1 2 Ashmore, Owen (1982). The industrial archaeology of North-west England and where to find it. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-0820-4.
1 2 3 National Archive Records on The Ash Group
↑ New Ladyhouse Smallpox Outbreak 1914

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Architects	David Bellhouse Bradshaw Gass & Hope F.W. Dixon & Son Edward Potts Potts, Pickup & Dixon Stott Sidney Stott (later Sir Philip)

Engine makers	Daniel Adamson Ashton Frost Ashworth & Parker Bateman & Sherratt Boulton & Watt Browett, Lindley & Co Buckley & Taylor Carels Frères Earnshaw & Holt Fairbairn W & J Galloway & Sons Benjamin Goodfellow Hick, Hargreaves & Co Benjamin Hick and Sons John Musgrave & Sons J & W McNaught Petrie of Rochdale William Roberts & Co of Nelson George Saxon Scott & Hodgson Urmson & Thompson Yates of Blackburn Yates & Thom Willans & Robinson J & E Wood Woolstenhulmes & Rye

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Mill owners	Elkanah Armitage Henry Ashworth Hugh Birley Hugh Hornby Birley Joseph Brotherton James Burton Peter Drinkwater Nathaniel Eckersley John Fielden William Gray Richard Howarth William Houldsworth John Kennedy Charles Macintosh Hugh Mason Samuel Oldknow Robert Peel John Rylands

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