Island Lodge, Tottington
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Island Lodge, Tottington
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 16 Mar 2021
Looking down to the right from Tottington Viaduct, we can see Island Lodge and Kirklees Brook which runs in a channel around the southern edge of the lodge. Island Lodge is so-named because of its small island used to serve Tottington Mill which closed in 1928. A smaller reservoir was here previously, to serve the corn mill which stood on the site between 1775 and 1796 when it was replaced by a cotton mill. Island lodge in its current form dates from the 1820s when Tottington Mill was acquired by Joshua Knowles who converted it to a printworks, enlarging both the mill and the lodge.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.618472
Longitude
-2.335567