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Quarry Bank Mill, Styal (1784)
1784 — Samuel Greg builds a cotton mill at Styal, relying largely on pauper children bound as apprentices. They are housed beside the river in an apprentice house. The Gregs’ family fortune joins the mill to another source of wealth: Caribbean plantations.
When 1784 Type Turning point Chapter Cotton and the factory system (chapter 2 of Industrial Revolution)Atlas The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914 TURNING POINT · THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750–1914 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Bartholomew: Literary & Historical Atlas of Europe,1914 · Canal & River Trust: historic canals · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · Maps of History: industrial geography reconstruction record · UNESCO: Derwent Valley Mills
Source details John George Bartholomew,1914; economic maps printedpp48–49 and53; railwayspp50–51. Original author died1920. Public-domain original scan; commercially restricted MapsETC derivative not used.. Public-domain original historical cartography; geographic facts independently reconstructed Canal & River Trust route histories, named canal endpoints and opening chronology.. Independent named-route reconstruction; no modern map artwork copied Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, reprojected and corrected by Maps of History as described per layer.. CC BY4.0 Made with Natural Earth; present coastlines support physical clipping, not historical political boundaries.. Public domain Named districts and route stations from the linked published atlases. District perimeters are interpretive economic regions, not sovereign borders or parcel-level industrial land use.. Original independent thematic reconstructions; source artwork not embedded UNESCO World Heritage Centre; named industrial locations and period evidence. The atlas district is not a copy of the modern UNESCO property boundary.. Factual geographic evidence; property artwork not redistributed Country fills apply the existing educational industrialisation stages to dated published polities. They do not imply that development was uniform throughout each empire. Economic districts represent thematic regions. Source dates and reconstruction methods are recorded separately.
reconstruction: 1785 · reconstruction: 1800 · reconstruction: Named district within chapter chronology · vector: 1709–1808 · vector: 1721–1813 · vector: 1763–1808 · vector: 1772–1806 · vector: 1775–1806 · vector: 1791–1802 · vector: 1792–1804 · vector: 1796–1802 · vector: 1797–1802 · vector: 1799–1802 · vector: 1800–1802 · vector: 1800–1813 · vector: 1800–1819
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