Derwent Valley Mills

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Derwent Valley Mills¹
UNESCO World Heritage Site

State Party	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Type	Cultural
Criteria	ii, iv
Identification	#1030
Region2	Europe and North America
Inscription History
Formal Inscription:	2001 25th WH Committee Session
WH link:	http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1030
1 Name as officially inscribed on the WH List 2 As classified officially by UNESCO

Derwent Valley Mills is a World Heritage Site along the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England, designated in December 2001. The modern factory, or 'mill', system was born here in the 18th century to accommodate the new technology for spinning cotton developed by Richard Arkwright. The insertion of industrial establishments into a rural landscape meant the construction of housing for the mill workers.

The site consists of the communities of Cromford, Belper, Milford, Darley Abbey and Lombe's Mills, and it includes 867 listed buildings. A further nine structures are Scheduled Ancient Monuments.

At the Working Textile Museum at Richard Arkwright's Masson Mill, there are approximately 680,000 bobbins on display.

[edit] External links

• Derwent Valley Mills official website

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England: Blenheim Palace · Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey & St. Martin's Church · Bath · Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape · Derwent Valley Mills · Durham Castle & Cathedral · Ironbridge Gorge · Jurassic Coast · Kew Gardens · Liverpool · Maritime Greenwich · Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey &  St. Margaret's · Saltaire · Stonehenge & Avebury · Studley Royal Park & Fountains Abbey · Tower of London Scotland: Edinburgh Old Town & New Town · Heart of Neolithic Orkney (Maeshowe, Ring of Brodgar, Skara Brae, Standing Stones of Stenness) · New Lanark · St Kilda Wales: Castles and Town Walls of King Edward I in Gwynedd (Beaumaris Castle, Caernarfon Castle, Conwy Castle, Harlech Castle) · Blaenavon Northern Ireland: Giant's Causeway Overseas territories: Henderson Island · Gough Island and Inaccessible Island · St. George's Transboundary: Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Hadrian's Wall)