Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,659 pages of information and 247,065 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

High Mill, Ilkley

From Graces Guide

on the River Wharfe at Addingham (near Ilkley), Yorkshire

Water powered cotton spinning mill built in the 1780s, incorporating part of earlier corn mill. Converted to worsted spinning by 1822, and to silk spinning in 1869.[1]

1985 photo here.

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Sources of Information

  1. 'Yorkshire Textile Mills 1770-1930 by Colum Giles & Ian H Goodall, HMSO 1995