Shaw Mills
Coordinates: 54°03′18″N 1°36′36″W / 54.055°N 1.610°W
Shaw Mills is a hamlet in Nidderdale in Harrogate district, North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the valley of Thornton Beck, a tributary of the River Nidd, 6 miles (10 km) north west of Harrogate.
The village probably takes its name from a corn mill kept by one Robert Shaw in the 16th century.[1] In 1812 John and George Metcalfe began spinning flax in the Low Mill at Shaw Mills[2] The High Mill and Low Mill both closed by 1861, but in about 1890 were restarted for silk-spinning. The mills closed soon after the First World War.[3] An industrial settlement developed in the 19th century to serve the mills.
References
Sources
- Jennings, Bernard (1992). A History of Nidderdale. ISBN 1 85072 114 9.
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