Facts and Data
Webpages:
Official Unesco Page
Derwent Valley Mills (official website)
Sir Richard Arkwright's Masson Mills
Arkwright Society
Strutt's North Mill
Basis Data:
Unesco World heritage since: 2001
Size of heritage: 1,229 ha
- Buffer zone: 4,363 ha
Coordinates:
Longitude: -0,512°
Latitude: 53,029°
About
The Derwent Valley in central England contains a series of 18th- and 19th- century cotton mills and an industrial landscape of high historical and technological interest. The modern factory owes its origins to the mills at Cromford, where Richard Arkwright's inventions were first put into industrial-scale production. The workers' housing associated with this and the other mills remains intact and illustrate the socio-economic development of the area.
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