Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Backbarrow Mill, Backbarrow


	Backbarrow Mill, Backbarrow
	Backbarrow Mill
	Backbarrow Cotton Mill
	Ainsworth Cotton Mill
locality:-	Backbarrow
civil parish:-	Haverthwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	textile mill (spinning)
locality type:-	mill
coordinates:-	SD357849
1Km square:-	SD3584
10Km square:-	SD38

evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series placename:- Leven Woollen Mill
source data:-	Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Leven Woollen Mill"

evidence:-	descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) placename:- Backbarrow Cotton Spinning Mills
source data:-	Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821. goto source Page 26, footnote:- "... From thence [Newby Bridge] to Bouth, on the common turnpike 3 miles. (But it might be worth while to go a little out of the way through a valley on the left hand, by Backbarrow Cotton-spinning-mills, the iron founderies, and Low-wood Gunpowder-mills, which are very romantically situated)."

evidence:-	old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) placename:- Mill, The
source data:-	Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Grand Lake of Windermere, scale about 2 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1819. CT9SD38T.jpg "The Mill" block, building/s, on the River Leven item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.102 Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-	old print:- Waugh 1860 placename:- Backbarrow Mills
source data:-	Print, engraving, Backbarrow Mills, Backbarrow, Haverthwaite, Lancashire, drawn by T H Wilson, published by Alexander Ireland and Co, 22 Market Street, Manchester, 1860. click to enlarge WU0118.jpg On p.47 of Over Sands to the Lakes, by Edwin Waugh. printed at bottom left:- "THW" printed at bottom:- "BACKBARROW MILLS." item:- Armitt Library : A1082.18 Image © see bottom of page

hearsay:-	At one time this was a dark satanic mill, the Ainsworth Cotton Mill; its workforce of young children, orphans from Liverpool and London, working 6 days a week from 5am to 8pm.
	In 1890 it became the Blue Works of the Lancashire Ultramarine Co, taken over by Reckitt and Colman in 1920, continuing to make industrial blue, a mixture of indigo and lime. This (it is firmly said) did not include Dolly Blue used in clothes washing. The mill closed 1981.
	It has been converted to a hotel, White Water Hotel, with a group of time share houses known as The Lakeland Village.

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