Lumford Mill, Bakewell
in Bakewell, Derbyshire
This was Arkwright's third spinning mill. Sold to Horace Mason in 1829, who became solvent in 1839, when the mill returned to the Arkwright family. Used by the Dujardin-Plante Battery Company (D. P. Battery Co) from 1898 to 1970. Significant parts of the mill survive at what is now the Riverside Business Park. [1]
1840 Advertisement: 'Valuable FREEHOLD and LEASEHOLD LAND and PROPERTY, situate at Bakewell and Lumford adjoining, consisting of the excellent and spacious COTTON WORKS And Appurtenances, lately worked by HORACE MASON, Esq. comprizing a large Cotton Mill, built of Stone, heated by Steam, capable of containing with ease 13,000 spindles, and filled with Machinery (the principal part of which is on the most modern construction) and driven by an excellently constructed iron wheel, by Hewes and Wren, 25 feet diameter, 18 feet wide, 15 inches deep on the sole, with 12 inch inverted gear, and on which the water is always laid at that desideratum of the Practical millwright - half-past ten. This Wheel has been recently, put down at the cost of nearly £2,000, is equal to 12,000 spindles, and is estimated at nearly 100-HORSE POWER. The wheel, primary motions and shuttle apparatus are admirably arranged and supplied by vast reservoirs, covering nearly 24 Acres, through which the beautiful River Wye, a stream principally supplied by springs and never flooded so as to retard the wheel, is entirely turned. The whole of the Property, except these reservoirs, is Freehold, and these are held under a Lease from His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, ending in 1895, at £44. per Annum….'[2]