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Field Mill, Quarry Lane, Mansfield, c 1900

Quarry Lane
Mansfield
England

On 24 July 1788 William Stanford, W E Stanford, John Stanford and John Burnside took a 19 year lease from the Duke of Portland to build a cotton spinning mill. Field Mill was one of one of seven water-powered spinning mills built between 1790 and 1800 along the River Maun between Little Matlock Mill and Bath Mill. It had the largest waterwheel in the town. In 1840 it had an iron tension overshot waterwheel with 124 buckets and was 40 foot in diameter with 32 spokes. A Watt style governer was fitted and rack gearing to adjust the shuttle boxes. For most of the nineteenth century it was occupied by Messrs. Greenhalgh. On November 1901 a bad fire caused over

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