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Initially the first stage of the process was hand carding, but in 1775 he took out a second patent for a water-powered carding machine and this led to increased output and the fame of his factory rapidly spread. He was soon building further mills on this site and others and eventually employed 1,000
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He started with 200 workers, more than the locality could provide, so he built housing for them nearby, one of the first manufacturers to do so. Most of the employees were women and children, the youngest being only seven years old. Later, the minimum age was raised to ten and the children were given
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The 1771 building had been reduced by two storeys in 1929. Access was forbidden due to the toxic residue from the 20th-century paintmaking usage; the later tank with its toxic sediment obscured the foundations of the 1775 mill and the breast-shot waterwheel chamber. Only one remaining mill building
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Cromford Mill has commissioned a replica water frame which was installed in April 2013. Considerable problems occurred in obtaining suitable roving, which had to be a low-twist 0.8 count cotton: there are no companies spinning cotton today in the United Kingdom. Roving was supplied eventually by
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as "one of the country’s 100 irreplaceable sites". In 2018, the "Cromford Mills Creative Cluster and World Heritage Site Gateway Project" was listed as a finalist for the "Best Major Regeneration of a Historic Building or Place" in the Historic England Angel Awards.
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A large part of the village was built to house the mill workers. Stuart Fisher states that these are now considered to be "the first factory housing development in the world". Employees were provided with shops, pubs, chapels and a school.
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beneath for the Bonsall Brook. The sough was separated from the brook and brought from the village along the south side of Mill Lane which it crossed by way of the aqueduct to a new
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The importance of this site is not that it was the first but that it was the first successful cotton spinning factory. It showed unequivocally the way ahead and was widely emulated.
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The gate to Cromford Mill was shut at precisely 6 am and 6 pm every day, and any worker who failed to get through it not only lost a day's pay but also was fined another day's pay.
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The cotton mill ceased operation in the 19th century and the buildings were used for other purposes, finally a dyeing plant. In 1979, the Grade I listed site was bought by the
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Arkwright's use of the Bonsall Brook and Cromford Sough for his mills had been opposed by other local water users in a number of legal cases. In 1772, however, a new sough,
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The mill and other buildings are open to the public every day, and has attracted visitors from all over the world. Facilities include a visitors' centre, shops and a café.
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drained into the brook back in the village, and both powered the original mill. The sough was separated and brought along a channel on the south side of Mill Road to the
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Existing three of five storeys showing the extent of the original mill. Initially there was an undershot waterwheel to the right outside of the picture.
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in 1793 linked Arkwright's Mill to the major Midland and northern cities, although use of the canal was to decline as traffic moved onto the railways.
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The mill manager had a house on site. Although the first workers were brought in from outside the area, workers' housing was later built in Cromford.
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Rieter in Switzerland, who had some experimental stock. Rieter are the world's largest manufacturer of textile manufacturing machines.
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In 2019, the Arkwright Society employed 100 people; by that time, the restoration expenditure had reached £48 million.
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workers at Cromford. Many other mills were built under licence, including mills in Lancashire, Scotland and Germany.
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The usable mill building undergoing work to replace many stone lintels and reinstate the original Georgian windows
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six hours of education a week, so that they could do the record-keeping that their illiterate parents could not.
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The foundations of the 1775 mill, which was destroyed by fire in 1890, with wheel chamber on the right
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for weaving cotton in 1733, the demand for spun cotton increased enormously in England. Machines for
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of a fabric, for which it was the practice to use linen thread, producing a type of cloth known as
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This shuttle in the village, known locally as the "Bear Pit", controlled the water from the sough.
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He chose the site at Cromford because it had year-round supply of warm water from the Cromford
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had already been developed but were inefficient. Spun cotton was also produced by means of the
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mines, together with Bonsall Brook. Here he built a five-storey mill, with the backing of
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The Cromford Mills Creative Cluster and World Heritage Site Gateway Project, Derbyshire
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The original 1771 mill seen on the approach along Mill Road from the village
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on the left and the hole in the wall where the wheel was located
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The culvert carrying the Bonsall Brook under the mill extension
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The Cromford mill complex, owned and being restored by the
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A "Cromford dollar". The figures "4|9" show a value of 4
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In 1801 and 1802, during a national shortage of silver,
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Inside the £130m ‘conservation challenge of the century
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coins were overstamped for use as coinage at Cromford.
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Cromford Mill is located in Derbyshire
Coordinates
53°06′32″N 1°33′22″W / 53.1090°N 1.5560°W / 53.1090; -1.5560
Listed Building
water-powered
cotton spinning mill
Richard Arkwright
Cromford
Derbyshire
Grade I listed building
Derwent Valley Mills
UNESCO World Heritage Site
flying shuttle
carding
spinning
spinning jenny
warp
fustian
water frame
water mill
Nottingham
Sough
Wirksworth
lead
Jedediah Strutt
Ichabod Wright


shillings

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