Shaw Mills

Shaw Mills
Shaw Mills
	Shaw Mills Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SE256625
Civil parish	Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills and Warsill;
District	Harrogate;
Shire county	North Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HARROGATE
Postcode district	HG3
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Skipton and Ripon;
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 54°03′18″N 1°36′36″W / 54.055°N 1.610°W

Shaw Mills is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills and Warsill, in Nidderdale in the Harrogate district, North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the valley of Thornton Beck, a tributary of the River Nidd, 6 miles (10 km) north west of Harrogate.

The village probably takes its name from a corn mill kept by one Robert Shaw in the 16th century.^[1] In 1812 John and George Metcalfe began spinning flax in the Low Mill at Shaw Mills^[2] The High Mill and Low Mill both closed by 1861, but in about 1890 were restarted for silk-spinning. The mills closed soon after the First World War.^[3] An industrial settlement developed in the 19th century to serve the mills.

References

^ Jennings, p.112
^ Jennings, p.211
^ Jennings, pp.262-3

Sources

Jennings, Bernard (1992). A History of Nidderdale. ISBN 1 85072 114 9.

[1] Jennings, p.112

[2] Jennings, p.211

[3] Jennings, pp.262-3

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