Helmshore Mills

Helmshore Mills are two factories based on the River Ogden in Helmshore, Lancashire. Higher Mill was worked in 1796 for William Turner, and Whitaker's Mill was worked in the 1820s by the Turner family. In their initial life they switched back and forth between working fleece and cotton. By 1920 they were working terrible as condensor donkey factories; and hardware has been safeguarded is as yet utilized. The plants shut in 1967 and they were assumed control by the Higher Mills Trust, whose trustees included antiquarian and creator Chris Aspin and government official Dr Rhodes Boyson, who kept up it as a gallery.

The factories are said to the most unique and best-safeguarded models of both cotton turning and woolen fulling left in the nation that are as yet operational. Helmshore Mills exist in Helmshore, a town in the Rossendale Valley, Lancashire. The town is 2 miles south of Haslingden, comprehensively between the A56 and the B6235, roughly 16 miles north of Manchester, and 3 miles from the M65 motorway. Helmshore straddles the River Ogden, a tributary of the River Irwell. The town created around the seven cotton and fleece plants which looks attractive.