Description and History of Site:-

Small jenny mill, originally a corn mill, but converted into cottages by 1813. Later a dairy, now a house.Possibly an early corn mill used for cotton spinning by 1792 or so by the addition of carding and preparing machines run by the water wheel, but the yarn spun by hand on jennies and used for weft.
In 1809 the partnership between Moses Wright and William Hardacre was dissolved. Samuel Gill and then Richard Chester tried their luck as spinners for a few months, but without success.
The mill was still being advertised as a former cotton mill in 1818.
Later it was used as a dairy for making butter. Subsequently converted to cottages.

Further Reading and References:-

Ingle, G. Yorkshire cotton: the Yorkshire cotton industry, 1780-1835. Carnegie, 1997.
Ingle, G. Yorkshire Dales textile mills: a history of all the textile mills in the Yorkshire Dales from 1784 to the present day. Royd Press, 2009.

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Key Words :- corn cotton textile spinning mill

Address :- Linton Falls, Linton, Grassington, North Yorkshire, BD23 6BQ
Grid Ref :- SE 00090 63280
Co-ordinates :- Lat 54.065461 , Long -2.000118
Local Authority :- Craven District Council
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - West Riding
Site Status :- Site extant - Protected status unknown
Site Condition :- Site refurbished to residential housing
Site Dates :- 1800? - 1812?
Contributor :- George Ingle - 10 June 2017

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