Cromford Mill begins spinning
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Arkwright's water-powered mill in the Derwent valley started work, drawing power from the Bonsall Brook and from a lead-mine drainage sough that ran warm and rarely froze. Around it he built housing, a market and a chapel to hold a workforce beside the machinery, and the resulting settlement is the template later copied across Britain and abroad.
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- Cromford Millconcerns
- Richard Arkwrightconcerns
- The water frameconcerns
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