List of mills in Rochdale

This is a list of mills known to have existed within Rochdale Borough, in Greater Manchester, England.

A-B

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)
Acre Works		Rochdale
Albert Mill		Rochdale ,  SD906125
Albion Mill		Rochdale ,  SD931161
Albion Mill		Rochdale ,  SD883103
Arkwright Mill		Rochdale ,  SD908011
Arrow Mill		Rochdale  SD886109
	Notes:
Balderstone Mill		Rochdale ,  SD905110
Bamford Mills		Rochdale ,  SD862127
Beal Works		Shaw, Rochdale
Belfield Mill (partof)		Rochdale ,  SD918139
Bellfield Mill		Rochdale ,  SD918139
Birch Mill		Rochdale ,  SD833082
Birtle Works		Rochdale ,  SD836124
Blue Pits Mill		Rochdale ,  SD885107
Brook Mills		Shaw, Rochdale
Brookside Mill		Rochdale ,  SD873061
Bridgefield Street Mill		Rochdale ,  SD889131
Brimrod Mill		Rochdale ,  SD888128
Broadfield Mill		Rochdale ,  SD850104
Brook Mill		Rochdale
Buckley Brook Mills		Rochdale ,  SD907149
Buckley Lower Mill		Rochdale ,  SD905147
Buckley Mill		Rochdale ,  SD907151
Butterworth Hall		Milnrow Rochdale  SD 934,122		1996
	Notes: Cotton Textile Paper Tubes Sonoco Milnrow's last Cotton mill
Burma Mill		Rochdale ,  SD900142

C to D

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)
Canal Street Mill		Rochdale ,  SD933122
Castleton Old Mill		Rochdale ,  SD892118
Castleton Works		Rochdale ,  SD888101
Church Street Mill		Rochdale ,  SD928127
Clegg Hall Mill		Rochdale ,  SD923145
Clough Fulling Mill		Shaw, Rochdale
Coral Mill		Newhey, Rochdale
File:Coral Mill, Newhey.jpg	Notes:
Coloured Spinning Company jxqnes Mill		Rochdale ,  SD878055
Crawford		Rochdale  SD 910,125
File:Crawford Mill, Rochdale - geograph.org.uk - 630483.jpg	Notes:
Crest		Rochdale  OL11 2NP	1906		118
	Notes: Architect Sir Philip Sidney Stott
Crimble		Rochdale  SD 865,116	1886		138
	Notes:
Croft		Rochdale ,  SD 908,139
Crossfield Mill		Rochdale
File:Crossfield Mill - geograph.org.uk - 1754677.jpg	Notes:
Dale Mill		Rochdale ,  SD908341
Dicken Green Mill		Rochdale  SD 901119
File:Dicken Green Mill, Rochdale, Lancashire - geograph.org.uk - 496791.jpg	Notes:
Dope Street Mills		Rochdale
Drydock Mill		Rochdale ,  SD927161
Dunlop Mill		Castleton, Rochdale ,  SD886851	1913		101

E to G

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)
Eclipse Mill		Rochdale  SD 908,139
	Notes: Five storeys, 41 by 14 bays. Ornamental water tower
Ealees Mill		Rochdale ,  SD942162
Ellenroad Mill		Newhey, Milnrow, Rochdale  SD930116	1890	1982	92
	Notes: Five storey fireproof mule mill, brick 40 bays by 18, corner turrets , 3 projecting towers on south front. Damaged by fire in 1916. Rebuilt for ring.Triple expansion horizontal by J & W McNaught, rebuilt by Clayton, Goodfellow as twin tandem 1916. 23.5 in and 43.75 diameter. Corliss valves on high pressure. 28ft rope cylinder. The mill itself is no longer standing, but the engine house, boiler house and chimney still are complete, with the steam engine which is maintained and steamed once a month by the Ellenroad Trust.(in 1982)
Ensor Mill		Queensway Rochdale  SD 888,111
	Notes: Engine named 'Clara'. a 750hp cross compound engine by Yates and Thom, 1915. 21"HP, 39"LP X 4ft stroke, operating on 160psi, at 73rpm. 21ft flywheel, 21 ropes. Corliss valves on both cylinders. Air pump drive from tail rod. And also a 750hp tandem compound engine by Sharples [Barrow in Furness?], 1908. 19"HP, 40"LP X 4ft stroke. Operating on 160psi, at 72 ½ rpm. 22ft flywheel, 17 ropes. Corliss valves on both cylinders. Air pump drive from crosshead. New Corliss gear and Lumb governors to both engines instead of Dobson's motion.
Facit Mill		Whitworth Rochdale  SD 888,189
	Notes:
Fieldhouse Mill		Whitworth Road Rochdale  SD 897,146
File:Fieldhouse Business Park - geograph.org.uk - 476410.jpg	Notes: Earlier mill was four storey, brick, rectangular windows stone sills and lintel. Later mill, three storey with stone decorated water tower: own branch line to Rochdale to Bacup line of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1870. By 1971 one mill was disused and partially demolished, but Bright's continued to use the other mill (with stack). Bright's were always regarded as a good firm to work for – they provided, for instance, a creche where babies and small children could be looked after while their mothers were at work.
Flat Mill		Rochdale
Garfield		Milnrow, Rochdale	1884	1968	84
Grange Mill (partof)		Rochdale
Green Grove Mill		Rochdale

H to L

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)
Hanging Lane		Rochdale	1791		233
	Notes: Opened in 1791, Rochdale's first steam powered mill
Harp		Rochdale
Hollings Mill		Rochdale ,  SD952139
Howard		Rochdale ,  SD936113
Ladyhouse Mill		Milnrow, Rochdale	1877		147
Ladyhouse Mill		Milnrow, Rochdale  SD931123	1879		145
	Notes: Bales of cotton, the first from Mexico, were blamed for a small smallpox outbreak 30 May 1914, affecting blowing room operatives, and others. The mill was described as having 2 bale breakers, 2 blowing room operatives, 4 cardroom jobbers, 2 can breakers, 4 drawing room (tenter)s and 4 assistants,4 slubbers and 4 assistant slubbers, 6 intermediate roving frame tenters, 8 roving frame tenters and 90 ring room operatives. New Ladyhouse mill was the first ring spinning mill established in 1879. Palm Mill was built in 1884, then Burns ring spinning, Heywood in 1891 and Nile (Oldham) and Era (Rochdale)in 1898. Ring spinning was more labour intensive working a 1:79 spindle to operative ratio.
Len Vale Mill		Rochdale
Lower Two Bridge Mill		Rochdale ,  SD936113
Lydgate Mill		Rochdale
Unity Mill		Rochdale ,  SD846101

M to N

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)
Malta Mill	F.W.Dixon	Middleton	1905		119
	Notes:
Manchester Old Road Works		Rochdale
Marland Mill		Rochdale  SD 877,111
File:Marland and Mars Mills, Nixon Street, Rochdale. - geograph.org.uk - 622121.jpg	Notes: engine house is likely to have housed an inverted vertical.
Mars Mill		Rochdale  SD 877,111	1906	demolished
	Notes: Mars was built 1906 and the engine house is for a horizontal layout. Mars is demolished.
Martin's Mill		Rochdale ,  SD8661	c.1850	1989
Mayfield Mill		Rochdale ,  SD908141
Millers Brook Mill		Heywood Rochdale  SD 858,109
File:Miller Brook Mill, Miller Street, Heywood - geograph.org.uk - 939300.jpg	Notes: Known locally as the Mop Shop.
Milnrow		Rochdale  SD 928,126		1992
File:Milnrow Cotton Mill - 1992 - geograph.org.uk - 637943.jpg	Notes: Fire in 1992, re-built, with only the front of the original building remaining.
Moss Mill		Rochdale  SD908124
File:State Mill and Moss Mill, Woodbine Street, Rochdale - geograph.org.uk - 622120.jpg	Notes:
Mutual Mills No 1		Rochdale  SD 861,111
File:Mutual Mill - geograph.org.uk - 267772.jpg	Notes:
Mutual Mills No 2		Rochdale  SD 861,111
File:Foundation stone - geograph.org.uk - 283128.jpg	Notes:
Mutual Mills No 3		Rochdale  SD 862,111
	Notes: Heywood. Dated 1914 although not completed until 1923.
Nathan		Rochdale
New Hey Mill		Rochdale
Norden Mill		Rochdale

O to P

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)
Oakenrod Mills		Rochdale  SD 888,131
	Notes: Fulling Mill on River Roch,Woollen mill in 1848. Three storeys, Stone built.
Oxford Mill		Rochdale
Park Mill		Rochdale
Passmonds Mill		Rochdale
Phoenix Mill		Rochdale
Portland Works		Rochdale ,  SD 88?713
Pye Mill		Rochdale

R to S

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)
Rakewood Mill		Rochdale
Red Lumb Mill		Rochdale
File:The Meadows at Red Lumb - geograph.org.uk - 483291.jpg	Notes: Converted to residential use as "The Meadows"
Regent Mill		Rochdale
Riverside Mill		Rochdale
File:Riverside Mill.jpg	Notes:
Roch Mill		Sudden,Rochdale  SD 883,124
	Notes: Flour Mill on River Roch, O.S map 1:10560 1851. Watermill: the leat ran across the present sewage farm.
Rock Nook Mill		Rochdale  SD 947,179
File:Rock Nook Mill, Calderbrook - geograph.org.uk - 1136439.jpg	Notes:
Simpson Clough Mill		Rochdale  SD 953,121
	Notes: Site in the Cheesden brook valley on the site of a fulling mill, in 1982 it was a paper mill.
Sladen Mill		Rochdale
Sladen Wood Mill		Rochdale
File:Sladen Wood Mill - geograph.org.uk - 1141983.jpg	Notes:
Spotland Bridge New Mill		Rochdale
State		Rochdale  SD 909,124
File:State Mill and Moss Mill, Woodbine Street, Rochdale - geograph.org.uk - 622120.jpg	Notes:

T

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)
Town House Shed Mill		Rochdale
Town House Mill		Rochdale ,  SD93S'73
Trafalgar Mill		Rochdale ,  SD90
Trafalgar Mill		Rochdale ,  SD924133
Trows Fulling Mill		Rochdale
Trows Upper Works		Rochdale
Twin Mill		Rochdale ,  SD862119
Two Bridge Mill		Rochdale
Two Bridges Mill		Rochdale
Two Bridges Mill		Rochdale
Tyne Mill		Rochdale ,  SD933163

U to V

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)
Union Mill		Rochdale ,  SD892118
Union Ring Mill		Rochdale ,  SD892118
Vale Mill		Shaw,Rochdale ,  SD863106
Vale Mill		Rochdale ,  SD901135
Vale Mills		Rochdale ,  SD906142
Valley Ring Mill		Rochdale ,  SD892117
Victoria Mill		Rochdale  SD863102
File:Victoria Mill Rochdale.jpg	Notes:
Victoria Mill		Rochdale ,  SD905123

W to Z

Name	Architect	Location	Built	Demolished	Served (Years)
Warwick Mill		Middleton  SD872057
File:Warwick Mill, Middleton - geograph.org.uk - 695516.jpg	Notes:
Wardle Mill		Rochdale ,  SD911171
Wasp Mill		Rochdale ,  SD913167
Wellfield Mill		Rochdale ,  SD904124
White Lees Mill		Rochdale ,  SD933165
Willow Street Mill		Rochdale ,  SD858109
Woodfield Mill		Rochdale ,  SD859110
Woodhouse Mills		Rochdale ,  SD857147
Yew Vale Mill		Rochdale ,  SD901136
Yew Vale Mill		Rochdale  SD906142
	Notes: Woollen

See also

• List of mills in Shaw and Crompton

External links

• Mills in Heywood in 1922 (accessed 12 May 2009)