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Monument record MDR5598 - Shacklecross Mill (site of), Borrowash, Ockbrook

Type and Period (2)

  • (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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  • None recorded

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SK 420341 Borrowash, Shacklecross Mill. A two and three-storey brick and concrete early 20th century cotton mill, with tower and chimney. Built for John Towle & Co. when they moved from Borrowash Mill (SMR 23803) but used by General Industrial Cleaners from the late 1930s to the present. The history of the site is commemorated in the names of two roads of modern housing nearby: Towle Close and Mill Close. (1) Named as 'Borrowash Mill (Cotton Doubling) on the OS map of 1914. (2) Now (2003) demolished and the site redeveloped for housing.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Bibliographic reference: Fowkes, D. 1986. Derbyshire Industrial Archaeology - A Gazetteer of Sites. Part II - Borough of Erewash. p 36.
  • <2> Map: Ordnance Survey (OS). 1912-1921. OS County Series, 3rd edition (Second Revision), scale 1:2500 (25" to one mile). Sheet LV.4, 1914.

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Grid reference Centred SK 420 341 (104m by 140m) (Approximate)
Civil Parish OCKBROOK, EREWASH, DERBYSHIRE

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Record last edited

Jul 8 2015 10:39AM

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