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Lumsdale Mills is a historic industrial site in Derbyshire comprising multiple mill buildings and associated water management infrastructure dating primarily to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The site demonstrates the development of textile manufacturing in the Peak District, with evidence of earlier medieval or post-medieval milling activity utilising the water power of Lumsdale Brook. The surviving structures include mill buildings, weirs, leats, and other hydraulic features that illustrate the engineering required to harness water resources for industrial production. The site represents an important example of the transition from small-scale corn milling to larger-scale textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution period.
Lumsdale Mills and associated water management features is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1417570. View the official record →
Lumsdale Mills is a historic industrial site in Derbyshire comprising multiple mill buildings and associated water management infrastructure dating primarily to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1417570.
Lumsdale Mills and associated water management features is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1417570.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Aqueduct, 328m south east of Aqueduct Cottage (5.4 km), Meerbrook sough portal 380m south west of Leashaw Farm (5.8 km), Railway embankment N of Wirksworth (5.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Lumsdale Mills and associated water management features's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Lumsdale Mills and associated water management features stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.