Everything about Cromford totally explained
Cromford, in
Derbyshire,
England, is a large
village that's one of the significant sites in the development of the
Industrial Revolution. It was here that
Richard Arkwright built his
cotton mill (
Cromford Mill) to make use of the
Water Frame — a development of a spinning machine produced by
Thomas Highs (1718-1803) that pre-dated, and was probably the prototype for, the
spinning jenny pioneered by
James Hargreaves.
The
factory buildings and accommodation for
workers to staff the factories form part of the
Derwent Valley Mills, which is recognised as a
World Heritage Site for its importance.
The
Cromford Canal – built to service the mills – is now in disuse, but has been designated an
SSSI. The
Cromford and High Peak Railway, completed in 1831, ran from Cromford to the
Peak Forest Canal at
Whaley Bridge. Its track bed now forms the
High Peak Trail, a walk and cycle route which is joined by the
Tissington Trail at
Parsley Hay.
Cromford railway station is located on the
Matlock-
Derby Derwent Valley Line, and can be seen on the cover of the 1995
Oasis single
Some Might Say.
The
Gell family, who were local
Hopton landowners heavily involved in the nearby
Wirksworth lead mining, had the
Via Gellia built to connect Cromford and Grangemill in the 18th C.
Cromford also has a
village lock-up that was used to detain drunks and suspected criminals.
In late 2006,
Anand Tucker used certain parts of Cromford, including its historic bookshop, for his film "And When Did You Last See Your Father", based on the autobiographical memoir by poet
Blake Morrison.
Colin Firth plays the adult Blake, with
Jim Broadbent cast as his dying father.
A quarter of the German town
Ratingen is named after Cromford, as this is where industrial pioneer Johann Gottfried Brügelmann 1783 erected the first factory outside England, using Arkwright's factory as an archetype. The factory today forms part of the
Rheinisches Industriemuseum.
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