Number by catalogue:  Michel: 1846   Yvert: 2148   Scott: 1892   Gibbons: 2127  

Perforation type: 14x14 ½

Subject:

44 pences. The textile Mills on Goyt River (Torrs Walkway, New Mills*)

Additional:

*New Mills is a town in Derbyshire, England approximately 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Stockport. It is sited at the confluence of the rivers Goyt and Sett, on the border of Cheshire. The town is situated at the north western edge of the Peak District, England's first national park. It has a population of approximately 10,000. Districts of New Mills include Newtown and Low Leighton. The villages and hamlets of Thornsett, Hague Bar, Rowarth, Brookbottom, Gowhole, and most of Birch Vale, all fall within the town boundaries.

New Mills was formerly known as Bowden Middle Cale. The name of New Mills was given to it from a corn-mill erected on the Sett in the hamlet of Ollersett, and is specially applied to the group of factories which grew up round it. Formerly paper and cloth were the staple industries of the district followed by iron and brass foundries, cotton mills and print-works. In recent times the town has become a rural feeder town for the conurbation of Manchester.

Topics: Industrial mills Watermills