Monument record MDR513 - Former Furness Vale Printworks, Station Road, Furness Vale

Type and Period (3)

PRINTING WORKS (Georgian to Victorian - 1800 AD to 1880 AD?)
GAS WORKS (Georgian to Victorian - 1800 AD to 1880 AD?)
MILL POND (Georgian to Victorian - 1800 AD to 1880 AD?)

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Full Description

'Furness Print Works' appears on the 1st edition OS map of the 1870s/80s. (1) A three-storey gritstone mill building and several single-storey buildings being the remains of the once much larger Furness Vale Printworks, which formerly incorporated a gas works. Partly in light industrial use [1984]. (2) The 1977 OS map shows mill ponds surviving. (3)

Sources/Archives (3)

<1> SDR18789 Map: Ordnance Survey (OS). 1882. OS County Series, 1st edition, scale 1:2500 (c. 25" to one mile).
<2> SDR4751 Bibliographic reference: Fowkes, D. 1984. Derbyshire Industrial Archaeology - A Gazetteer of Sites. Part I. Borough of High Peak.
<3> SDR12469 Map:

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Grid reference	Centred SK 008 838 (100m by 100m) (Multiple Centre Site)
Civil Parish	WHALEY BRIDGE, HIGH PEAK, DERBYSHIRE

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EDR3566

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Record last edited

Jan 13 2015 1:42PM