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Title: Hoyle Bottom Mill, Luddenden Valley - HPC00179
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Title
Hoyle Bottom Mill, Luddenden Valley - HPC00179
Description
NAME: HOYLE BOTTOM or SQUARE MILL
LOCATION: Moor Bottom
REF: LD 2
GRID REF: 048 293
CLASSIFICATION: C
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: A long, predominately two storey stone built mill with date stone 1872. This refers to a period of rebuilding and alterations, which were continued C1900. The original mill dates from the early 19C, being first recorded in 1817. A dam lies 150 yds above the site, and was used to power a water turbine. It replaced an earlier dam on the west side of the mill.
PRESENT USE AND POTENTIAL: The mill has been converted into a chicken farm, and is fully used as such. There have been a number of modern alterations, with windows blocked and boarded up
Photo taken c1985.
LOCATION: Moor Bottom
REF: LD 2
GRID REF: 048 293
CLASSIFICATION: C
CONDITION: Fully used
APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: Late 19C
DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: A long, predominately two storey stone built mill with date stone 1872. This refers to a period of rebuilding and alterations, which were continued C1900. The original mill dates from the early 19C, being first recorded in 1817. A dam lies 150 yds above the site, and was used to power a water turbine. It replaced an earlier dam on the west side of the mill.
PRESENT USE AND POTENTIAL: The mill has been converted into a chicken farm, and is fully used as such. There have been a number of modern alterations, with windows blocked and boarded up
Photo taken c1985.
Creator
Harry Pogson
Source
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Date
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Rights
PHDA - Harry Pogson Collection
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
HPC00179.tif
Collection
Citation
Harry Pogson, “Hoyle Bottom Mill, Luddenden Valley - HPC00179,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/7612.
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