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Mellor is a village in the Stockport district, in Greater Manchester, England, lying between Marple Bridge and New Mills, Derbyshire. [1]Buildings in the village include St. Thomas' Church, a primary school, golf course, sports club, a riding school, three pubs (the Royal Oak, [2] The Devonshire Arms [3] and The Oddfellows Arms [4]) and the late-17th-century Mellor Hall.
Mellor is a civil parish in Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. It contains ten listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Mellor, and is otherwise rural.
The Millstone Branch as shown on a map created by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1911. The Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad (M&NB) was chartered in the mid-19th century as a seven-mile long branch line from New Brunswick, New Jersey to East Millstone, New Jersey. Construction was completed and the line began operation on December 19, 1854.
Colne Valley is an unparished area in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Colne Valley ward contains over 480 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, twelve are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. This list contains the listed buildings in the western ...
Mellor two churches, one Church of England Parish Church (St Mary's) and one Methodist, as well as a primary school, three public houses and a hotel.In addition to this there is a post office and general store, a hair salon and a beauty salon, a high quality butcher's shop, a pharmacy and a private hire company.
Mellor Hall is a country house in Mellor, Greater Manchester, England, 0.4 miles (0.64 km) north of the Devonshire Arms off Longhurst Lane. The completion date of the present hall is thought to be 1688. The hall and the adjoining farmhouse, dated to 1691 and originally a smithy, has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed ...
Mellor Mill, also known as Bottom's Mill, was a six-storey cotton mill in Marple (historically part of Cheshire, now in Greater Manchester) built by Samuel Oldknow in 1793. This was a six-storey, 42-foot (13 m) wide and 210-foot (64 m) long mill with additional three-storey wings making it 400 feet (120 m) in all.
The Millstone, Drabble said in 2011, is about how maternity "changes you into something fiercer than you were before." [3] Three of Drabble's first six novels have Biblical titles – a remnant perhaps of her Quaker education. [4] The Millstone was the first, the other two being Jerusalem the Golden (1967) and The Needle's Eye (1972).