Green plaque № 11855

Milnthorpe, Westmorland and Furness, England, United Kingdom

LOW MILLS. In 1701 there was a spinning mill here using 'cotton wool' brought from Barbados by a Milnthorpe merchant, Joseph Grigg. Later the site was occupied by Richard Crampton's and Potter Fletcher's paper mills. The present house was erected in 1860 for the manager of Milnthorpe Gas Works and e

xtended in 2003. The gasholder and retort, just to the east, were demolished in the 1970's and taken to the Beamish Museum in County Durham. Milnthorpe Gas Works were said to be the last in England to

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