Park Mill
Spot, building, farm, …
Leeds, United Kingdom
One of the textile mills of Benjamin Gott, the first integrated woollen mill, built in Bean Ing, Leeds, in 1792.
Even though the mill was driven mainly by waterpower, Gott soon installed a Boulton & Watt steam engine. The woollen mill attracted notice because it was one of the first factories to bring together under one roof the various textile manufacturing processes such as carding, spinning, weaving, dyeing etc. By 1800, Park Mill employed about one thousand people.
Note about the map: The coordinates of the site are not known. For the localisation they were derived from the context.
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