Greenfield Valley Heritage Park - Lower Cotton Mill
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Greenfield Valley Heritage Park - Lower Cotton Mill
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 8 Feb 2014
These large rectangular ruins are the remains of a 6 storey cotton mill built in 1785 and closed in 1840. it then became a corn mill in 1850s and produced flour until the 1900s. There was obviously a centrally mounted waterwheel but there is also evidence of a steam power system with boiler setting and engine bed. The stone building to the right is a warehouse. There are also scattered items of machinery - none of which appear likely to have been associated with the textile mill.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.285596
Longitude
-3.21255