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Ellenroad Mill was a cotton spinning mill in Newhey, Milnrow, Rochdale in England. It was built as a mule spinning mill in 1890 by Stott and Sons and extended in 1899. It was destroyed by fire on 19 Jan 1916. When it was rebuilt, it was designed and equipped as a ring spinning mill. After closure, the mill itself was demolished in 1982, but the engine house – complete with steam engine – and the boiler house chimney were retained. Ownership passed to the Ellenroad Trust. The Ellenroad Ring Mill Engine is still steamed on occasions for demonstrations. ==Location== Ellenroad mill was situated on flat land alongside the river in Newhey (archaically "New Hey"〔Youngs (1991), p. 172.〕) Newhey is now a suburban village in the Milnrow area of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale,〔Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council (N.D.), p. 32.〕 in Greater Manchester, England. It lies at the foot of the Pennines,in the valley of the River Beal, east-southeast of Rochdale, northeast of Manchester. Historically a part of Lancashire, Newhey was anciently a hamlet within the township of Butterworth. It was described in 1828 as "consisting of several ranges of cottages and two public houses".〔Butterworth (1828), p. 113.〕 In the early 19th century a major road was built through Newhey from Werneth to Littleborough. Newhey was incorporated into the Milnrow Urban District in 1894. There were five mills recorded in Newhey in 1920: including Ellenroad, Newhey, Coral, Haugh and Garfield. The Rochdale Canal which officially opened in 1804, provided a broad canal link across the Pennines and consequently became an important transport corridor. The canal started within Greater Manchester, at the Bridgewater Canal, linked with the Ashton Canal, and passed through Ancoats, Droylsden, Moston, Middleton and Chadderton before passing to the south of Rochdale and the north of Milnrow and Newhey, towards Todmorden. The canal carried coal and cotton to the mills, and the completed yarn to the weaving sheds. In 1890 the canal company had 2,000 barges and traffic reached 700,000 tons/year, the equivalent of 50 barges a day.〔New Moston History Society (【引用サイトリンク】title=Rochdale Canal )〕 It provided an axis for the development of the cotton industry. Newhey was 3 km from the canal and was late in building cotton mills. More significantly the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway built the Oldham Loop Line through Milnrow and Newhey in 1863. Today the engine house of Ellenroad mill lies to the south of Junction 21 of the M62 motorway. Rochdale was a prime site for cotton spinning in 1890. It was conveniently located for the coal fields and the railways made the importation of cotton easy. The following table shows the number of spindles (x1000) worked in the region of Rochdale: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ellenroad Mill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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