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Field Mill

Courtesy of Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery

Junction of Quarry Lane and Portland Street
Mansfield
England

On 24 July 1788 William Stanford, W E Stanford, John Stanford and John Burnside took a 19 year lease from the Duke of Portland to build a cotton spinning mill. Field Mill was one of one of seven water-powered spinning mills built between 1790 and 1800 along the River Maun between Little Matlock Mill and Bath Mill. It had the largest waterwheel in the town. In 1840 it had an iron tension overshot waterwheel with 124 buckets and was 40 foot in diameter with 32 spokes. A Watt style governer was fitted and rack gearing to adjust the shuttle boxes. For most of the nineteenth century it was occupied by Messrs. Greenhalgh. On November 1901 a bad fire caused over $1,000 damage. The occupants then were the Mansfield Shoe Co. It was for sale in 1903 including two 37 feet long Cornish Boilers and an Oldhams and Richards vertical Engine. It was bought by Mansfield Borough Council in 1923 and demolished c 1925, the wheel being the last to go All that remains is the pond and stonework along the wheel intake. The Master's house remains as a public house.

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