Westhoughton Mill
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Westhoughton Mill
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Westhoughton Mill or Rowe and Dunscough's Mill, in Mill Street in Westhoughton, near Bolton in the historic English county of Lancashire, was the site of a Luddite arson attack in 1812. The mill was built in 1804 by Richard Johnson Lockett, a Macclesfield man who lived at Westhoughton Hall. He leased the mill to Thomas Rowe of Manchester in 1808. During 1811 and 1812 Luddites had been attacking powered mills throughout the English North and Midlands to such an effect that the government in Febru
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2023-10-04T15:56:41Z
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