List of mills in Lancashire



This is an incomplete list of the cotton and other textile mills that were located within the modern-day boundaries of the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. The first mills were built in the 1760s, in Derbyshire using the Arkwright system and were powered by the water. When stationary steam engines were introduced they still needed water, so the mills were built along rivers and canals. As a broad rule of thumb, spinning mills were built in the south-east of the county, and weaving sheds to the north and west. Parts of Lancashire have been subsumed into Greater Manchester and Merseyside, and are not included in this list. Parts of Yorkshire are now included in this county.

Accrington
'Home of Howard & Bullough'

Bacup
Rossendale

Source 1891 data: Grace's Guide

Blackburn
'Home of Northrop Loom Works' and William Dickinson

Burnley
The home of Butterworth & Dickinson and Queen Street Mill Textile Museum

Great Harwood
Great Harwood - Map of Mills

Haslingden and Helmshore
Home of S.S.Stott and Co and Helmshore Mills Textile Museum

Oswaldtwistle and Stanhill
Home to James Hargreaves