Grace's Guide
British Industrial History
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 144,950 pages of information and 230,620 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Mill Towns
From Graces Guide
A list of the main mill towns
In Britain, the term "Mill town" often refers to the 19th century textile-manufacturing towns of Scotland and Northern England, particularly those in Lancashire (cotton) and Yorkshire (wool). Likewise the northern English city of Manchester was bestowed with the name Cottonopolis as its region was considered a metropolis of cotton processing mills.
Cheshire
- Congleton
- Hyde
- Macclesfield
- Stalybridge
Lancashire
- Accrington
- Ashton-under-Lyne †
- Blackburn
- Bolton †
- Burnley
- Bury †
- Chadderton †
- Chorley
- Colne
- Darwen
- Failsworth†
- Heywood †
- Lees†
- Leigh †
- Nelson
- Oldham †
- Padiham
- Preston
- Radcliffe†
- Ramsbottom
- Rochdale †
- Royton†
- Shaw and Crompton†
- Wigan †
† - denotes as a town historically in Lancashire, but now in Greater Manchester.
Yorkshire
- Barnoldswick
- Batley
- Bingley
- Bradford
- Brighouse
- Cleckheaton
- Dewsbury
- Elland
- Halifax
- Hebden Bridge
- Heckmondwike
- Holmfirth
- Huddersfield
- Keighley
- Morley
- Ossett
- Pudsey
- Shipley
- Skipton
- Sowerby Bridge
- Todmorden
- Yeadon
See Also
Sources of Information
[1] Wikipedia