List of mills in Rochdale

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

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1 A-B
2 C to D
3 E to G
4 H to L
5 M to N
6 O to P
7 R to S
8 T
9 U to V
10 W to Z
11 See also
12 References
13 External links

A-B

Name	Architect	Location	Demolished
Acre Works		Rochdale
Albert Mill		Rochdale , SD906125
Albion Mill		Rochdale , SD931161
Albion Mill		Rochdale , SD883103
Arkwright		Rochdale
Arrow		Rochdale SD 886 109
	Notes:
Balderstone Mill		Rochdale , SD905110
Bamford Mills		Rochdale , SD862127
Beal Works		Shaw, Rochdale
Belfield Mill (partof)		Rochdale , SD918139
Bellfield Mill		Rochdale , SD918139
Birch Mill		Rochdale , SD833082
Birtle Works		Rochdale , SD836124
Blue Pits Mill		Rochdale , SD885107
Brook Mills		Shaw, Rochdale
Brookside Mill		Rochdale , SD873061
Bridgefield Street Mill		Rochdale , SD889131
Brimrod Mill		Rochdale , SD888128
Broadfield Mill		Rochdale , SD850104
Brook Mill		Rochdale
Buckley Brook Mills		Rochdale , SD907149
Buckley Lower Mill		Rochdale , SD905147
Buckley Mill		Rochdale , SD907151
Butterworth Hall		Milnrow Rochdale SD 934 122	1996
	Notes: Cotton Textile Paper Tubes Sonoco Milnrow's last Cotton mill
Burma Mill		Rochdale , SD900142
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C to D

Name	Architect	Location	Built
Canal Street Mill		Rochdale , SD933122
Castleton Old Mill		Rochdale , SD892118
Castleton Works		Rochdale , SD888101
Church Street Mill		Rochdale , SD928127
Clegg Hall Mill		Rochdale , SD923145
Clough Fulling Mill		Shaw, Rochdale
Coral Mill		Newhey, Rochdale
	Notes:
Coloured Spinning Company jxqnes Mill		Rochdale , SD878055
Crawford		Rochdale SD 910 125
	Notes:
Crest		Rochdale
Crimble		Rochdale SD 865 116	1886
	Notes:
Croft		Rochdale , SD 908 139
Crossfield Mill		Rochdale
Dicken Green Mill		Rochdale SD 901 119
	Notes:
Dope Street Mills		Rochdale
Drydock Mill		Rochdale , SD927161
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E to G

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)
Eclipse Mill		Rochdale SD 908 139
	Notes: Five storeys, 41 by 14 bays. Ornamental water tower
Ealees Mill		Rochdale , SD942162
Ellenroad Mill		Newhey, Milnrow, Rochdale SD930116	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
	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
	Notes:
Fieldhouse Mill		Whitworth Road Rochdale SD 897 146
	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
Hanging Lane		Rochdale	1791
	Notes: Opened in 1791, Rochdale's first steam powered mill
Harp		Rochdale
Hollings Mill		Rochdale , SD952139
Howard		Rochdale , SD936113
Ladyhouse Mill		Milnrow, Rochdale	1877
Ladyhouse Mill		Milnrow, Rochdale	1879
Len Vale Mill		Rochdale
Lower Two Bridge Mill		Rochdale , SD936113
Lydgate Mill		Rochdale
Lynity Mill		Rochdale , SD846101
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M to N

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished
Manchester Old Road Works		Rochdale
Marland Mill		Rochdale SD 877 111
	Notes: engine house is likely to have housed an inverted vertical.
Mars Mill		Rochdale SD 877 111	1906
	Notes: Mars was built 1906 and the engine house is for a horizontal layout. Mars is demolished.
Martin's Mill		Rochdale , SD8661
Millers Brook Mill		Heywood Rochdale SD 858 109
	Notes: Known locally as the Mop Shop.
Milnrow		Rochdale SD 928 126		1992
	Notes: Fire in 1992, re-built, with only the front of the original building remaining.
Moss Mill		Rochdale SD908124
	Notes:
Mutual Mills No 1		Rochdale SD 861 111 -->
	Notes:
Mutual Mills No 2		Rochdale SD 861 111
	Notes:
Mutual Mills No 3		Rochdale SD 862 111
	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
	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
Regent Mill		Rochdale
Riverside Mill		Rochdale
	Notes:
Rock Nook Mill		Rochdale SD 947 179
	Notes:
Simpson Clough Mill		Rochdale SD 953 121
	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
Spotland Bridge New Mill		Rochdale
State		Rochdale SD 909 124
	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
Trows Fulling Mill		Rochdale
Trows Upper Works		Rochdale
Twin Mill		Rochdale , SD862119
Two Bridge Mill		Rochdale
Two Bridges Mill		Rochdale
Two Bridges Mill		Rochdale
Tyne Mill		Rochdale , SD933163
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U to V

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)
Union Mill		Rochdale , SD892118
Union Ring Mill		Rochdale , SD892118
Vale Mill		Shaw,Rochdale , SD863106
Vale Mill		Rochdale , SD901135
Vale Mills		Rochdale , SD906142
Valley Ring Mill		Rochdale , SD892117
Victoria Mill		Rochdale , SD863102
Victoria Mill		Rochdale , SD905123
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W to Z

Name	Architect	Location
Warwick Mill		Rochdale , SD872057
Wardle Mill		Rochdale , SD911171
Wasp Mill		Rochdale , SD913167
Wellfield Mill		Rochdale , SD904124
White Lees Mill		Rochdale , SD933165
Willow Street Mill		Rochdale , SD858109
Woodfield Mill		Rochdale , SD859110
Woodhouse Mills		Rochdale , SD857147
Yew Vale Mill		Rochdale , SD901136
Yew Vale Mill		Rochdale SD906142
	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
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Rochdale online Mills". http://www.rochdale-on-line.com/heritage/mills.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
^ Spinning the Web
^ ^a ^b Ashmore, Owen (1982). The industrial archaeology of North-west England and where to find it. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719008204.
^ ^a ^b ^c National Archive Records on The Ash Group

External links

Mills in Heywood in 1922 (accessed 12 May 2009)

Lancashire cotton

Architects	Stott · Sidney Stott (later Sir Philip) · Edward Potts · Potts, Pickup & Dixon · F.W. Dixon & Son

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

Machinery makers	Brooks & Doxey · Butterworth & Dickinson · Curtis, Parr & Walton · Dobson & Barlow · John Hetherington & Sons · Joseph Hibbert · Howard & Bullough · Geo. Hattersley · Asa Lees · Mather & Platt · Parr, Curtis & Madely · Platt Brothers · Taylor, Lang & Co · Textile Machinery Makers Ltd · Tweedales & Smalley

-	Oldham Limiteds · Fine Spinners and Doublers · Lancashire Cotton Corporation · Courtaulds · Bagley & Wright

Industrial processes	Textile manufacturing · Cotton-spinning machinery · Friction Spinning · Magnetic ring spinning · Open end spinning · Ring spinning · Spinning frame · Spinning jenny · Spinning mule · Water frame · Roberts Loom · Lancashire Loom

Lists of mills	LCC mills · Bolton · Bury · Cheshire · Derbyshire · Lancashire · Manchester · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford · Stockport · Tameside · Wigan

Museums	Helmshore Mills · Queen Street Mill (Burnley) · Weavers' Triangle (Burnley)

List of mills in Rochdale

Contents

A-B

C to D

E to G

H to L

M to N

O to P

R to S

T

U to V

W to Z

See also

References

External links