Atlas — the interactive world
Earth · Earth · Explore · All time · 62 of 242 located marks in focus · editorial corpus · no live source connected
site
Close ✕Cromford Mill
Arkwright's first water-powered cotton spinning mill, begun in 1771 in the Derwent valley in Derbyshire, and generally described as the first successful mill of its kind anywhere.
53.1, -1.6 · approximate · from 1771; World Heritage inscription 2001
On the world
- A place in: Industrial Revolution · 6 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections
- created by Richard Arkwright — Arkwright built the mill from 1771 together with housing, a market and a chapel to hold a workforce beside the machinery.
- is superseded of The steam engine — Steam power removed the requirement that a mill stand at a fall of water, and the rural water-powered mill was displaced by the urban steam mill within two generations.
- uses The water frame — The mill was built around water frames driven from a single shaft, which is why it had to stand at a reliable head of water.
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain) · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates