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    Kearsley Mill is a 240,000 sq ft (22,000 m2), late period cotton mill located in the small village of Prestolee in Kearsley, Greater Manchester, part...
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    drainage problems at the Wet Earth Colliery on the borders of Kearsley and Clifton. In 1780, a mill was built at the point where the River Croal meets the River...
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    Junction Mills Westhoughton Mill Lists List of schools in Bolton List of mills in Bolton Listed buildings in Blackrod Bolton Farnworth Horwich Kearsley Little...
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    monuments in the villages including Ringley Old Bridge, the village stocks, Kearsley Mill, St Saviour's Church and clock tower and the large stone railway bridge...
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    The town is within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire. A former mill town, Bolton has been a centre for textile production since the 14th century...
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    Wood Horwich Works Little Bolton Town Hall Kearsley Mill Lostock Hall Gatehouse Smithills Hall Swan Lane Mills Ye Olde Man & Scythe Places of worship All...
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  • Junction Mills Westhoughton Mill Lists List of schools in Bolton List of mills in Bolton Listed buildings in Blackrod Bolton Farnworth Horwich Kearsley Little...
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    Wood Horwich Works Little Bolton Town Hall Kearsley Mill Lostock Hall Gatehouse Smithills Hall Swan Lane Mills Ye Olde Man & Scythe Places of worship All...
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    November 2009. "Name: KEARSLEY MILL List entry Number: 1267954". Historic England. Retrieved 7 February 2016. David Dixon. "Farmers Arms Mill". St Mark's School...
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  • No 3 Twist Mill (and now called Brook Mill). No 2 Twist Mill (now called Valley Mill) was built nearby in 1881 and the third and largest mill, No 1 Spinning...
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    Wood Horwich Works Little Bolton Town Hall Kearsley Mill Lostock Hall Gatehouse Smithills Hall Swan Lane Mills Ye Olde Man & Scythe Places of worship All...
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  • Kearsley is a town and an unparished area in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, and it includes the area of Ringley and the...
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    Extract from A Short History of Hall i' th' Wood Compiled and Edited by Derek R. Mills (1992) 53°36′00″N 2°25′08″W / 53.600°N 2.419°W / 53.600; -2.419...
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  • 1835 to 1837. Kearsley was the third son of Edward Kearsley and his wife Ann (née Hodson); his father was a partner in a Wigan cotton mill along with his...
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  • Bridge Mills and Laburnum Mills in Atherton, Holden Mill at Astley Bridge in Bolton, Kearsley Mill in Kearsley and Walkden Mill in Walkden were also owned...
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    Wood Horwich Works Little Bolton Town Hall Kearsley Mill Lostock Hall Gatehouse Smithills Hall Swan Lane Mills Ye Olde Man & Scythe Places of worship All...
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    lumber mill was built with a dam in 1834 on the Kearsley Creek 1650 feet from the Flint River. This was followed by a second and third mills on Kearlsey...
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    Wood Horwich Works Little Bolton Town Hall Kearsley Mill Lostock Hall Gatehouse Smithills Hall Swan Lane Mills Ye Olde Man & Scythe Places of worship All...
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    Ainsworth Mill, Breightmet is a mercerising mill near the Breightmet neighborhood of Bolton, Greater Manchester. It was bought by the Lancashire Cotton...
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  • Bolton Union Mill was a cotton spinning mill in Halliwell, Bolton, Greater Manchester. It was built in 1875 and 1880. It was taken over by the Lancashire...
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  • Horwich Johnson Fold Community Primary School, Halliwell Kearsley West Primary School, Kearsley Ladybridge Community Primary School, Deane Lever Edge Primary...
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    Based in the cotton store of the former Atlas Mill in Mornington Road, it is owned and run by the Northern Mill Engine Society (NMES). The NMES is a registered...
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    Astley Bridge Mill or Holden Mill is a former cotton mill in the district of Astley Bridge in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which has since been...
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    Prestolee (category Kearsley)
    Prestolee is a small village in Kearsley, within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Irwell and is...
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  • Lostock Junction Mills (also known as Rumworth Mill) were a pair of cotton spinning mills in Lostock, Bolton, England which stood on a narrow stretch of...
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    Wood Horwich Works Little Bolton Town Hall Kearsley Mill Lostock Hall Gatehouse Smithills Hall Swan Lane Mills Ye Olde Man & Scythe Places of worship All...
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    of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5, British History Online, pp. 12–20 Mills 1976, p. 134 "Friends of Smithills Hall". Wilkes, Sue, "Smithills Hall,...
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    Croal which runs through Bolton and eventually joins the River Irwell at Kearsley. Middlebrook has retail, leisure and business parks and it is also the...
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    Kearsley railway station serves the town of Kearsley and the outlying villages of Stoneclough, Prestolee and Ringley in Greater Manchester, England. It...
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    Swan Lane Mills is a former cotton mill complex in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. All three mills are Grade II* listed buildings. The mills were designed...
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