Newtown Mill, Burnley
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Newtown Mill, Burnley
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 15 Feb 2015
Newtown Mill, formerly known as Burnley Iron Works and Newtown Steelworks, is located on Queen's Lancashire Way. Burnley Iron Works was a large engineering firm which made more than sixty textile mill engines to power local cotton mills. Amongst the engines produced at the foundry were the Harle Syke engine http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/motive_power/1971-78.aspx and the Corliss stationary mill steam engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmEc1wLCA2U displayed in the London Science Museum. Although it now bears the name “Newtown Mill”, it is not the historic Newtown Mill whose Grade II-listed chimney remains on the bank of the River Calder. http://goo.gl/cw1i78 Lancashire Lantern http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Burnley_Ironworks_Co Grace’s Guide http://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/nostalgia/burnley-mill-s-link-to-literature-and-workers-revolt-1-1700520 Burnley Express
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Image Location
Latitude
53.789187
Longitude
-2.249348