Derbyshire Paper Mills
The following mills appear in the articles "Some Notes on Derbyshire Paper Mills, Part 1 & Part 2" by Tanya Schmoller which appeared in the January 1994 and March 1994 issues of The Quarterly, The review of the British Association of Paper Historians. Back issues of this journal can be ordered from the BAPH Web site. A list of the papermakers mentioned in the articles appears here.
If you would like more information about one of these mills, please e-mail me at susan@knowmark.ca. Be sure to include the name of the mills you are interested in as well as your return e-mail address!
Important Note: There is quite a bit of information given in these articles for some of the listed mills, however, for others there is barely a mention that they existed. I do not have any information other than what I send you and I do not have any information on mills which are not listed here!
In some cases, I've included information about where the mill is located with its name. This information is from the articles. I don't have any knowledge of Derbyshire geography and cannot provide more information than what I send you.
Alport Mill
Bank Vale Paper Mill No.24 (a.k.a. Top Mill)
Bate or Beard Mill (at Rowarth, near New Mills)
Beard Mill (at New Mills?)
Beer House Mill (at Torside in the Longdendale valley north-east of Glossop)
Brook Mill, Little Eaton
Charleston Mills, near Glossop
Darley Abbey
Dinting Mill
Dover Mills, near Glossop
Dunsley Mill (near Cromford)
Folly Mill (near Allgreave, a.k.a. Folly Grove Paper Mill)
Hall Dale Mill, Darley, Matlock
Hayfield Mill
Longford Mill (a few miles west of Derby)
Masson Mill, Matlock
Mill No.67 in Toadhole
Peckwash Mill, Little Eaton More information available here.
Primrose Vale Mill
Primrose Paper Staining Mill
Swallow House Mill (a.k.a. Bottom Mill)
Turn Lee Mills, near Glossop
WhiteHall Mill, Chapel-en-le-Frith