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Latitude: 53.6276 / 53°37'39"N
Longitude: -1.8581 / 1°51'29"W
OS Eastings: 409484
OS Northings: 414574
OS Grid: SE094145
Mapcode National: GBR HVGH.JB
Mapcode Global: WHCB6.F2FT
Plus Code: 9C5WJ4HR+2Q
Entry Name: Mill Dam at Westwood Mills
Listing Date: 20 June 2000
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1271264
English Heritage Legacy ID: 487128
ID on this website: 101271264
Location: Linthwaite, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, HD7
County: Kirklees
Electoral Ward/Division: Colne Valley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Golcar St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Mill building
SE 01 SE
391/5/10018
20-JUN-00
COLNE VALLEY
LOWESTWOOD LANE
Linthwaite
Mill Dam at Westwood Mills
GV
II*
Dam to mill pond. 1801, enlarged 1824 and 1858. Coursed local gritstone. Retaining wall approximately 3 meters high on east face with sluice gates at north to water wheel and at south to overflow. Triangular in plan, tapering to goit from river at west end; approximately 200meters long and 50 meters wide.
The north side of the mill pond is bounded by the towpath of the Huddersfield Canal, a contemporary structure, and the south side is embanked down to the river Colne. This pond also supplied water to the small mill dam at Lower Mill to the south-east now called Titanic Mill.
HISTORY; recorded as the dam embankment, byewash, pentrough and wheel race in a document of 1801 and enlarged in 1824 when a new 2 storey fulling mill was added. The new work included wheel race, wooden and stone pentroughs, dam embankment, two trunks, sluices and byegoits.
Listing NGR: SE0948414574
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