Pinsley Mill
| Pinsley Mill | |
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Herefordshire | |
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| Type: | Watermill |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SO501590 |
| Location: | 52°13’39"N, 2°43’55"W |
| History | |
| Watermill | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | demolished |
Pinsley Mill, also known as Etnam Street Mill,[1] is a former watermill in Leominster, Herefordshire.
This was one of Leominster's first mills, situated where the Pinsley Brook left the monastic precinct around Leominster Priory, and was mentioned in a lease of 1675 as a "watercorne" mill.[1]
At some time between 1744 and 1748, Pinsley Mill was reopened by Daniel Bourn as a cotton mill, one of the Paul-Wyatt cotton mills built to house the roller spinning machinery invented by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt, [2] that first enabled the spinning of cotton "without the aid of human fingers".[3] Bourn's mill operated successfully as a mill until 1754, when it was destroyed by fire.[4]
The mill was rebuilt and returned to its original function as a corn mill, remaining in use until the Second World War.[1]
The mill was vandalised and set alight several times in 2010 – 2013. It was demolished in 2014.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Greene, Miranda: 'The Mills of Leominster in 'Herefordshire Through Time' (Herefordshire Council, 2009)
- ↑ Wadsworth, Alfred P. and Mann, Julia De Lacy: 'The cotton trade and industrial Lancashire, 1600–1780' (Manchester University Press, 1931) page 441
- ↑ Mantoux 2006, p. 212.
- ↑ Day 2005, p. 156.
- Day, Lance; McNeil, Ian (2005), "Bourn, Daniel", Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, London: Routledge, ISBN 0203028295, https://books.google.com/books?id=m8TsygLyfSMC&pg=PA156, retrieved 2013-12-07
- Mantoux, Paul (2006) [1928], The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England, tr. Vernon, Marjorie, London: Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0415378397