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    Cromford (/ˈkrɒmfərd/) is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, in the valley of the River Derwent between Wirksworth and Matlock. It is 17...
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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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    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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    Cromford railway station serves the village of Cromford in Derbyshire, England. It is a stop on the Derwent Valley Line, which connects Derby with Matlock;...
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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)
    factory system," notably through the methods developed in his mill at Cromford, Derbyshire (now preserved as part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage...
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  • Cromford Incline is a former railway incline in Cromford, Derbyshire once part of the Cromford and High Peak Railway. The incline was one of six gradients...
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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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    The Cromford and High Peak Railway (C&HPR) was a standard-gauge line between the Cromford Canal wharf at High Peak Junction and the Peak Forest Canal...
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    Cromford Wharf is at Cromford in Derbyshire, England. It is located at the northern terminus of the Cromford Canal, which opened in 1794 and ran 14.5 miles...
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    Cromford War Memorial is a 20th-century grade II listed war memorial in Cromford, Derbyshire. The war memorial stands in a Garden of Remembrance and consists...
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    The Textilfabrik Cromford in Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany was built in 1783 by Johann Gottfried Brügelmann. It was the first cotton spinning...
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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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  • Cromford is a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains 97 listed buildings that are recorded in the National...
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    collects the Bentley Brook. It then flows past the villages of Matlock Bath, Cromford, Whatstandwell, and Ambergate, where it is joined by the River Amber. Below...
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    fishbelly edge rail manufactured by Outram at the Butterley Company for the Cromford and High Peak Railway in 1831; these are smooth edge rails for wheels with...
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    St Mary's Church, Cromford, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Cromford, Derbyshire. The current building replaced an ancient...
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  • in Derbyshire, focusing on the water mills of Lumsdale Valley, Ashford, Cromford and Slinter Wood. It is named after Richard Arkwright who founded the world's...
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    Castle is a late 18th-century country mansion above the River Derwent at Cromford, Derbyshire, outside Peak District National Park. The castle has been a...
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    were to be found in sidings, but the Hopton Incline was on the former Cromford and High Peak Railway's single-track main line as inherited by British...
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  • Derbyshire once part of the Cromford and High Peak Railway. The incline was one of six gradients on the entire line from Cromford to Whaley Bridge in High...
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    were too ambitious. In 1789 Jessop was appointed chief engineer to the Cromford Canal Company. The proposed canal was intended to carry limestone, coal...
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  • Middleton railway station was a minor railway station on the Cromford and High Peak Railway on the Middleton Incline. Outside of Middleton, Derbyshire...
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    Butterley Tunnel is a 3,083-yard (2,819 m) disused canal tunnel on the Cromford Canal below Ripley, in Derbyshire, England, opened to traffic in 1794....
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    because the water supply, which flows down from Cromford Moor, simply disappears as soon as it reaches Cromford Road and the porous limestone. Phosgenite,...
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    hamlet in the county of Derbyshire, England, east of Hartington and west of Cromford. The principal employer in the area is DSF Refractories & Minerals Ltd...
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    water frame in 1769, he established Cromford Mill, in Derbyshire, England, significantly expanding the village of Cromford to accommodate the migrant workers...
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    (19 km) and has 14 locks. The first lock at Langley Bridge is part of the Cromford Canal. The canal obtained its act of Parliament, the Erewash Canal Act...
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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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    High Peak Junction, near Cromford, Derbyshire, England, is the name now used to describe the site where the former Cromford and High Peak Railway (C&HPR)...
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