These Dark Satanic Mills
The pages linked below tell the stories of some of the mills and the workers that helped to define Heywood during its 19th-century heyday:
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| An interactive map and webpages listing about 150 old mills and workplaces around Heywood. |
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| A timeline of Heywood mills through the centuries. (Page under construction) |
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| The history of one of Heywood's earliest mills. (Page under construction) |
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| Why the once-thriving Hooley Bridge Mill and village was all but empty in the 1860s. |
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| Why the Brook Street Mill was said to have the 'crookedest chimney in England'. |
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| How the history of Makin (later Roach) Mill reflected the history of Heywood itself. |
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| Why children who worked in factories were smaller than those who didn't. |
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