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The diarist John Evelyn described the 'delicious streames and venerable Woods' around Wotton. He

The new Old Neptune was a conversion of two cottages; at the time of this photograph it was a local brewer's Tomson & Wotton's house.

The three passenger steamers alongside the quay are, from left to right, the 'New Resolute', the 'Wotton' and probably the 'St Mawes Castle'.

This 15th-century gatehouse is in the village of Kingswood, one mile south of Wotton; it is part of the Cistercian abbey which existed here until the Dissolution.

Sir Henry Wotton, in 1624, said that the scene was 'without parallel among foreign Nationes ... in the Garden of Sir Henry Fanshawe at his seat in Ware-Parke'.

Backbarrow Cotton Mill was notorious for its cruel treatment of the children who worked there.

There were once thirteen cotton mills here, and the town was linked by both canal and rail to other industrial centres all around.

By the 1860s Bollington was thriving, but during the American Civil War the cotton towns of Lancashire, east Cheshire and north Derbyshire felt the effects of the Federal blockade of Confederate ports.

Those who did their business here would know where to find the Blackburn cotton manufacturers, or the Oldham cotton spinners, as well as cotton brokers, agents for the Indian and Chinese markets, and machinery

A ship carrying cotton bales was shipwrecked off Wirral, and the bales washed ashore.

All those cotton mills needed spun cotton, and this village, sitting right on the edge of the Peak District National Park, was once an important spinning centre.

But there are links with an older Bangor: the wide space once held cotton mills when that was a protected industry in Ireland.

Backbarrow Cotton Mill was notorious for its bad treatment of the children who worked there.

Raw cotton imports and finished cotton exports represented about 70 per cent of the value of goods being shipped, though since 1951 oil had become the primary tonnage commodity.

The land was donated by John Ferney, a retired cotton spinner, and much of the funding was provided by William Atkinson, a cotton manufacturer.

The land was donated by John Ferney, a retired cotton spinner, and much of the funding was provided by William Atkinson, a cotton manufacturer.

Between 1787 and 1834, the number of cotton mills in Scotland rocketed from just 19 to 134.

His warehouses survive, and so does part of his brickworks, and a single building from his cotton mill also survives in the car auction complex.

Facit New Mill was a cotton mill employing 700 people in its heyday – it closed in the mid 1960s.

'A thriving village with some collieries and extensive cotton factories' was how Bollington was described in 1848.

Between 1787 and 1834, the number of cotton mills opened in Scotland rocketed from just 19 to 134.

Nearby Hampton Court became the home of the Arkwright family, the well-known cotton spinning industrialists.

In the 19th century the town's industrial base boasted Samuel Lucas & Sons, ironfounders, spade, shovel and spindle manufacturers; George Ward & Co, who were spindle manufacturers for the worsted, cotton

His warehouses survive, and so does part of his brickworks, and a single building from his cotton mill also survives in the car auction complex.