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Belper North Mill, also known as Strutt's North Mill in Belper, is one of the Derwent Valley Mills, given UNESCO World Heritage Status in 2001. The mill is sited in Belper, a town in Derbyshire, England, roughly halfway between Derby and Matlock. The original North Mill, completed in 1786 by Jedediah Strutt, was destroyed
History of the Belper Mills. From 1776, when Jedediah Strutt built his first mill (the South Mill) on the site, until the early 1990s when the English Sewing Cotton Company finally closed down the modern spinning operations in the East Mill, cotton spinning was carried out on the site of the Strutts’ Belper Mills, a span of over two hundred ...
The Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. Belper sits within the beautiful Derwent Valley, which is close to the Peak District and significant in world history as the birthplace of the factory system. Here, new types of building were erected to house ground-breaking technology for water-powered manufacturing.
Their first factory the world’s first water-powered cotton spinning mill was set up at Cromford in 1771 and a second mill was built in Belper in 1776. This was the beginning of the association of the Strutt family with Belper, and the impetus for this small village to become, by 1801, the second largest town in Derbyshire.
20. Juli 2011 · Freely available genealogical and historical data about the town of Belper in Derbyshire. Records of notable families, information about the churches and chapels, especially the Unitarian Chapel, the Strutt family, the Mills, the Industrial Revolution, photos and videos of modern Belper, BMDs, Parish Records, and other family history ...
Belper North Mill, rebuilt in 1804 by William Strutt on the lower storeys of the earlier mill that had been destroyed by fire in 1803, embodies the knowledge accumulated from all the earlier experiments William Strutt had made into fire-resistant mill structures and from his close participation in Charles Bage’s pioneering work at Shrewsbury.
Community. World Heritage Site. Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. Belper sits within the beautiful Derwent Valley, significant in world history as the birthplace of the factory...
