Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire is one of the best-preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution and now forms part of one of Britain’s greatest heritage sites, supported by a unique and nationally significant archive and collection and cared for by the National Trust, showing how a complete industrial community lived, and how society changed forever. Designated as a Grade II listed building, Quarry Bank Mill was built in 1784 and inspired the recent Channel 4 TV drama series ‘The Mill’. Visitors see and hear working textile machinery, the waterwheel and steam engines that powered these machines to produce cloth. They also can find out about how the workers lived and worked by visiting the Apprentice House and Styal village. Raw cotton was transported here from

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