Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire, is one of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution and is now a museum of the cotton industry. It is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building and inspired the 2013 television series The Mill.

Samuel Greg introduced the power of steam to Quarry Bank Mill in 1810. Over the course of the 19th century the Mill increasingly relied on steam as its main source of power, replacing water

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