Lancashire Textile Mills Stage 2 Survey

The work was commissioned by English Heritage (now Historic England) and considered 541 surviving textile-manufacturing sites in Lancashire, which represented about a third of the total number of sites that once existed in the county. These textile-manufacturing sites included those engaged in the preparation, spinning, weaving and finishing of organic textiles, including cotton, wool, silk, fustian, and jute, and man-made fabrics such as oilcloth and rayon.

Ancillary works that were demonstrably part of the textile industry, such as textile-machinery works, were also considered, where all or most of their output was utilised directly by the textile-manufacturing sites.

The work comprised three principal elements:

• a 'Buildings At Risk'-type assessment that was designed to provide information on the condition, occupancy, and potential significance of each of the surviving sites
• detailed surveys of a selected sample of textile sites
• the identification of sites that merited consideration for potential statutory designation.

Oxford Archaeology North were commissioned by Historic England to carry out the survey project.

Contents

• Summary
• Introduction
• Assessment methodology
• Textile-manufacturing sites in Lancashire
• Historical background to the textile industry
• Textile sites in Blackburn with Darwen
• Textile sites in Burnley
• Textile sites in Chorley
• Textile sites in Fylde
• Textile sites in Hyndburn
• Textile sites in Lancaster
• Textile sites in Pendle
• Textile sites in Preston
• Textile sites in the Ribble Valley
• Textile sites in Rossendale
• Textile sites in South Ribble
• Textile sites in West Lancashire
• Textile sites in Wyre
• Stage 2 Survey
• Post Project Evaluation
• Bibliography
• Figures