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Preston was a major cotton town, and the Lancaster Canal runs from Ashton Basin.

Like Macclesfield and many other small towns around, Wilmslow was to develop enormously in the 18th century with the introduction of industries linked to local silk and cotton mills.

The houses on the right of the street date from about this time, and were provided by Strutt for his workers at the nearby cotton mills, powered by the River Derwent.

In this area the canal was used for the transportation of fustian, a form of rough cotton known as 'poor man's velvet' that was produced locally.

At the time of the Industrial Revolution there were cotton and bobbin mills here providing work for hundreds of operatives. Low Mill has been converted into flats.

When the Cotton family commissioned Capability Brown to design a park in 1756, he cut a swathe through the village, separating the church and a couple of farms and cottages from the rest of the village

The view looks upstream to Low Moor Mill, which produced cotton cloth until it closed in the 1950s. Its site is now occupied by a housing development.

Agriculture dominated the village until the end of the 17th century, when Arkle Beck was harnessed for cotton mills. Low Mill, which only closed in 1970, was claimed to be the oldest in the country.

Harden Beck, which used to power a cotton-spinning mill up to 1802, is pictured here just below Hallas Bridge. The local poet John Nicholson wrote much of his pastoral work near the 20ft waterfall.

It was planted on 11 November 1923 by Ezra Cotton and George Davy, the oldest and youngest children at the school, to commemorate the great battles of 1916.

Mills processed cotton and wool, providing clothing and fancy goods for the millions of workers who poured into West Yorkshire in the 19th century. Mining was also prevalent in the district.

Cotton spinning brought rich rewards to the town. The new mills, ten of which were established as early as 1758, used water power from the fast running River Ryburn.

Born near Bolton in 1768, he established Preston's first cotton mill, known as the Yellow Factory, and founded a textile business that grew to be one of the biggest in the world.

St Mary's Church was built between 1875-77 on the site of a former cotton factory in Buttermarket Street, close to the working-class districts which provided its congregation.

It was known later as the Cotton Exchange.The building, at least the front, is still there today, and is a cinema. Blackburn had had three local newspapers by the time the Reading Room opened.

In this area the canal was used for the transportation of fustian, a form of rough cotton known as 'poor man's velvet' that was produced locally.

It is for Ezra Cotton (d1898) and his widow Lucy (d1908).

It was thanks to the generosity of cotton manufacturer William Atkinson that Southport got a Free Library and Art Gallery; he paid for both of them.

John Bright`s father Jacob built a cotton mill at Greenbank in 1809 and John became a partner when he was aged 16. John built his home, One Ash, opposite the mill in 1839.

He followed Dr Cotton in increasing the size of Marlborough from a modest establishment, providing good cut-price education to the son of clergymen, to one of the great public schools of the

It grew into a centre for brewing, cotton manufacturing, boat building and tanning, and was once known as 'the Glasgow of the South'.

The hall was later remodelled as a mansion house for the Hynde and Cotton families. The very fine 15th-century gateway came from the Old Schools in Cambridge in c1754.

Leigh was a market town that prospered on coal, cotton, and silk.

Alkali was needed not only for the production of soap but also to finish textiles in the nearby Lancashire cotton mills.