Yorkshire Industrial Heritage

Brownhill Mills

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Basic information

Name: Brownhill Mills.
Township: Holme.
Civil Parish: Holmfirth.
Country: West Yorkshire.
Type of record: C.
NMRfn: 63232.
NGR: SE 114 061.
UTM: 53.55140952, -1.829406424

Additional information

Day, Michael: Wool & Worsit: A History of Textiles in the Holme Valley (Laverock Publishing, 2013), pages 82-85.

Ortophotographic map

Aerial photographic view of Brownhill Mills (Holme, West Yorkshire).

Site

Map of Holme with its 2 textile mills.

Comments

1 Jordi

Posted August 30th, 2017 at 08:23

According to Huddersfield Exposed, Brownhill Mills was a disused mill, demolished prior to construction of Brownhill Reservoir.

2 Beaumont Sleuth

Posted August 30th, 2017 at 05:25

It would appear that what was once Brownhill Mills is now under water, flooded to create the Brownhill Reservoir. Does anyone know the history of this?