Lagwith Mill & Restaurant

One of two large mills built in 1786 for spinning cotton. It was converted to a corn mill in 1866 after cotton spinning was stopped. Built from limestone with a slate roof it was the largest mill in the area. The second mill about half a mile away was later converted to a primary school which is still in use today. Langwith Mill House which stands adjacent to the mill building was until recently used as a restaurant.

Langwith Mill was four storey cotton mill built in 1786, originally sixteen windows wide, which must have made it one of the largest mills in the district. Cotton spinning ceased in about 1848 and the building was converted into a corn mill in 1886. It is built in limestone with a slate roof. Alongside was a large dam for water power supply, now a meadow. Langwith Mill is a curtilage building to the Grade II listed Langwith Mill House and a building of Local Interest in its own right.





The ground floor is pretty sound.



Oh look, stairs



First Floor, not looking too bad. A bit patchy in places









The Second Floor. Many more rotten boards here.



Third Floor. Many rotten boards, hidden by pigeon shit.



These stairs are a bit screwed. The rails are rotten too, I decided not to climb p to the top floor as I was solo.



The Restaurant









The Gardens



The Bridge is in much better shape than it looks.



All in a nice easy explore in tranquil surroundings.

Excellent pics CM, did you see the boiler/water thing that had crashed through the roof on the next to top landing? thats what stopped me getting to the top floor.I'm glad to see you could get into the former house/restaurant building. I was walking around there for ages to see if i could gain some access, but the boards were totally sealed up.

The mill is a lovely building isn't it? the garden area looks like its been cleaned up a lot since i went down there. Most of it was all overgrown. Did you go for a walk on the bridge of doom lol? i was on my own, so didn't chance it.

On the mill side of the pond, on the right hand side of the bridge, it looks like there's a small tunnel, but i hadn't got my wellies or haven't got waders, so couldn't get a better look in there.

Cheers mate, excellent report, and excellent pics.

Sal

smileysal said:

Excellent pics CM, did you see the boiler/water thing that had crashed through the roof on the next to top landing? thats what stopped me getting to the top floor.I'm glad to see you could get into the former house/restaurant building. I was walking around there for ages to see if i could gain some access, but the boards were totally sealed up.

The mill is a lovely building isn't it? the garden area looks like its been cleaned up a lot since i went down there. Most of it was all overgrown. Did you go for a walk on the bridge of doom lol? i was on my own, so didn't chance it.

On the mill side of the pond, on the right hand side of the bridge, it looks like there's a small tunnel, but i hadn't got my wellies or haven't got waders, so couldn't get a better look in there.

Cheers mate, excellent report, and excellent pics.

Sal

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Thanks, I'm rather pleased with some of the shots. PM me if you want access details into the house building.

I did indeed walk over the bridge How could I not do so! It's actually quite sound. I didn't spot a tunnel, I may have to pop back and take a look

The restaurant house is nice but the mill is fantastic.
Love the beams, the wheeled mechanism and the cogs. Superb stuff. I didn't realise it was the same place that Sal had explored backalong, until she said in her post...always amazes me the different take that people have on a site.
Cheers

What a gorgeous place! I love old mill buildings. They all seem to have the air of hard work and hard lives in them. This looks like a superb mill, great shots of the old power wheels that fed the machines. I guess it would all have been steam powered?