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  • Thumbnail for Richard Arkwright
    Cromford, Arkwright returned to Lancashire and took up a lease of the Birkacre mill at Chorley, which was to become a catalyst for the town's growth into...
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    Worthingtons who lived there until after the Civil War. A water mill at Birkacre was leased by Richard Arkwright for cotton spinning in 1778 but was set...
    15 KB (1,607 words) - 19:13, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution
    would-be rioting textile workers, who had burned down another of his mills in Birkacre, Lancashire. The cannon was never used. The mill structure is classified...
    47 KB (5,978 words) - 00:44, 11 December 2023
  • Hole, Burnley Bell Isle, Tinnicliffe Belthorn, Yate - shown disused 1908 Birkacre, Birkarce Blackburn, Whitebirk Bog Farm, Darwen Brandlewood Moor, Stacksteads...
    47 KB (3,940 words) - 07:27, 11 May 2024
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    trout, chub, Dace and barbel. Fish passes have been installed at Pincock, Birkacre and Duxbury, to enable upstream spawning of fish which would be unable...
    13 KB (1,130 words) - 20:00, 11 April 2022
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    Scottish Borders 55°38′N 2°20′W / 55.64°N 02.33°W / 55.64; -02.33 NT7939 Birkacre Lancashire 53°38′N 2°39′W / 53.63°N 02.65°W / 53.63; -02.65 SD5715 Birkby...
    71 KB (26 words) - 11:38, 5 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of mills in Lancashire
    2 killed and 8 wounded. Birkacre Printworks  SD571151 53°37′52″N 2°39′00″W / 53.631°N 2.650°W / 53.631; -2.650 ("Birkacre Printworks ") Canal Mill...
    70 KB (1,103 words) - 00:56, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yarrow Valley Country Park
    contains much woodland and includes nature reserves, the best known being Birkacre and Duxbury Woods. Parts of the park are reclaimed collieries and other...
    1 KB (138 words) - 06:18, 27 July 2023
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    Duxbury is now part of the Yarrow Valley Park which also includes the nearby Birkacre lodges and the large Burgh estate which was once owned by Duxbury Hall...
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  • Thumbnail for Weavers' Triangle
    for warp, was even more unpopular. In 1777, Arkwright built a mill at Birkacre in Chorley. By 1779, the momentum against power-driven spinning machinery...
    41 KB (3,530 words) - 22:43, 5 November 2023