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Cottageville (also Moores Mill, Rhodess Mill, or Wrights Mill) is an unincorporated community in western Jackson County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along West Virginia Route 331 northwest of the city of Ripley, the county seat of Jackson County. [1] Established in 1858, its elevation is 594 feet (181 m). [2]
St Lawrence Mill, a smock mill marked on the 1819-43 Ordnance Survey map that was burnt down on 15 May 1873. [4] The millers were Richard Fuller in 1845 and J Chantler in 1862. [ 6 ] This mill stood on or near the site of Canterbury's earliest recorded windmill, which stood at Little Foxmould in the Ridingate area.
H P Barton and Caleb Wright built the first mill on the west side of Union Street on a field known as Barnfield in 1851. The mill had 20,000 spindles. By 1866 Wright had new partners, Peter and Charles Eckersley, and the partnership built the second mill. By 1870 Caleb Wright and Company had built a third spinning mill and three more mills were ...
At the age of nine Wright began work as a "piecer" in a local cotton mill. [4] At the age of 15 he became a spinner and rose to become manager of the mill in 1830. [1] In 1841 he became manager of Ormerod and Hardcastles Mill in Bolton. [5] In 1845 he established his own cotton-spinning business in Tyldesley in partnership with Henry Barton.
Blackfriars, Canterbury was a priory of the Dominican Order in Kent, England. Founded in 1237 it lay either side of the River Stour in the west of the city, adjacent to where the Marlowe Theatre now stands.
In 2000, the Greyfriars Chapel and Franciscan Gardens were sold to the Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, Canterbury, who currently oversee the everyday maintenance of the building, and the weekly services in the chapel. Surrounded by the Franciscan Gardens, it is a haven of peace in the middle of a bustling city.
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There has been a mill here since at least the late 16th century and possibly Domesday. George Reynolds Wright took full control of the mill in 1870. Originally powered by a back water of the River Lea. In 1913 owing to construction work at the nearby King George V Reservoir the water supply which powered the millstones was cut off.