West Vale Mills
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Basic information
- Name
- West Vale Mills.
- Township
- Elland cum Greetland.
- Civil Parish
- Elland.
- Country
- West Yorkshire.
- Type of record
- A.
- NMRfn
- 62808.
- NGR
- SE 0949 2110.
- UTM
- 53.68627007, -1.857783099
Description
Established in 1850 as steam-powered worsted-spinning mill. First building, a spinning shed, no longer extant. Complex comprises six-storeyed twenty-bay pedimented mill, timber-floored over a fireproof ground floor which includes internal boiler house, attached engine houses (one for a beam engine, a later one for a vertical engine, storeyed warehouses, single and double-storeyed shed, offices, including time office, and dwellings). Mill run as worsted-spinning factory by John Maude and Co until being taken over c1897 by John Horsfall and Sons and converted to manufacture of woollen blankets.
Ortophotographic map
Aerial photographic view of West Vale Mills (Elland cum Greetland, West Yorkshire).
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