Historic sites

Quarry Bank

United Kingdom Cheshire East Wilmslow

Quarry Bank
Photo: Francis Franklin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

One of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution, founded in 1784 by Samuel Greg. See the huge waterwheel and working cotton machinery, and visit the Apprentice House where child workers lived.


The owners' house and gardens, the woods of the Bollin valley and the village of Styal, built for the workers, complete the visit.

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