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    Cromford Mill is the world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill, developed by Richard Arkwright in 1771 in Cromford, Derbyshire, England. The mill...
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    nearby Cromford Mill, which he built outside the village in 1771. Cromford is in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. The Cromford mill complex...
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    could be produced by unskilled workers. Cromford Mill was the site of Arkwright's first mill, with nearby Cromford village significantly expanded for his...
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    Richard Arkwright (category People from Cromford)
    through the methods developed in his mill at Cromford, Derbyshire (now preserved as part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site). Richard Arkwright...
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    The Cromford Canal ran 14.5 miles (23.3 kilometres) from Cromford to the Erewash Canal in Derbyshire, England with a branch to Pinxton. Built by William...
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    tomorrow". Venetian Arsenal Cromford Mill Lombe's Mill Soho Manufactory Portsmouth Block Mills Slater Mill Historic Site Lowell Mills Springfield Armory Harpers...
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  • of Cromford and the surrounding area. The parish is important because it was here that Richard Arkwright built the first water-powered mill, Cromford Mill...
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    A mill pond (or millpond) is a body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill. Mill ponds were often created through the construction of a...
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    factories[citation needed] and the Derwent Valley Mills. After he patented his water frame in 1769, he established Cromford Mill, in Derbyshire, England. The factory...
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    at an experimental stage, Arkwright and his partners started work on Cromford Mill in Derbyshire, which "was to prove a major turning point in the history...
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    can be made for John Lombe's silk mill in Derby (1721), or Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill (1771). The Cromford Mill was purpose-built to accommodate...
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    station Ratingen: Textilfabrik Cromford (textiles factory), the first factory in continental Europe, named after the Cromford Mill Solingen: Gesenkschmiede...
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    labour in textile factories. Cromford Mill was an early Arkwright mill and was the model for future mills. The site at Cromford had year-round supply of warm...
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  • founded the world's first successful water powered cotton spinning mill in Cromford in 1771. The society was founded after a festival in 1971 to commemorate...
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    Retrieved 27 June 2015. "About Cromford Mill". Archived from the original on 20 May 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2012. "Cromford Mills – birthplace of the industrial...
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    built a water-powered mill in Cromford, Derbyshire. In 1771, Arkwright installed the water frame in his cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, on the River...
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    Textilfabrik Cromford in Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany was built in 1783 by Johann Gottfried Brügelmann. It was the first cotton spinning mill on the...
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    small mill stream, and Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill, the world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill, only used a small tributary of the Derwent...
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    [citation needed] The Cromford Canal passes through the village, which was an important transport route to and from Arkwright's Cromford Mill in the 19th century...
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  • continuous processes of today were originally batch operations. The Cromford mill of 1771, designed by Richard Arkwright, was the first factory to use...
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    Erewash Canal in Derbyshire. The wharf stands on Mill Lane opposite Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill, and surviving buildings include two warehouses -...
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    work at the cotton mill opened that year by Jedediah Strutt using the water frame pioneered by Richard Arkwright at nearby Cromford Mill. In 1782, his father...
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    March 2020. "Lumsdale | Cromford Mills". www.cromfordmills.org.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2020. "Explore Lumsdale" (PDF). Cromford Mills - Lumsdale. Retrieved...
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    water frame to use the extra power of a water mill. His first mill was the Cromford Mill in 1771. Masson Mill is the third, and was built close by to take...
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    marriage, and after his death in 1824, Richard Arkwright Junior of Cromford Mill fame, became the owner. William Arkwright of Sutton Scarsdale was High...
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  • Mill – another mill using the Paul-Wyatt machinery, opened by Daniel Bourn in Leominster some time between 1744 and 1748 Cromford Mill – opened by Richard...
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  • blast-furnaces, forges, rolling mills and other metallurgical establishments of England, Wales and Scotland. The Cromford Mill, starting from 1772, ran day...
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    Roundhouse Cromford and High Peak Railway Cromford Mill Derby Silk Mill Derbyshire Dales Narrow Gauge Railway Derwent Reservoir Derwent Valley Mills Ecclesbourne...
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    architect Thomas Gardner for the residents of Richard Arkwright’s mill in Cromford. Construction was completed during 1792-97. After Sir Richard Arkwright...
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    region can claim the world's first factory, Sir Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill. Additionally, the world's oldest working factory can also be found...
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