Bollington

From the late 18th through to the mid-20th centuries, Bollington was a major centre for cotton-spinning. Waterhouse Mill, now demolished, off Wellington Road, once spun the finest cotton in the world, and was sought after by lace makers in Nottingham and in Brussels, Belgium. Clarence Mill still stands on Clarence Road. The lower floors remain commercial but the upper floors have been converted into apartments. One of the oldest surviving mills in Bollington is the very small Defiance Mill, built on Queen Street about 1800 and now restored for residential occupation. There is a large paper coating mill on the site of Lower Mills. The original mill was built by George Antrobus in 1792, but…