page_title: New Mills
section_title: Canal
hierarchical_section_title: New Mills / Transport / Canal
caption_attribution_description: Newtown, Derbyshire is the part of New Mills in the Peak District, on the south bank of the Peak Forest Canal. Most is now in Derbyshire, some remains in Cheshire. Camera location53°&#160;21′&#160;37.08″&#160;N, 2°&#160;00′&#160;12.6″&#160;W&#160;View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth
context_page_description: New Mills is a town in Derbyshire, England. It is approximately 8 miles south-east of Stockport and 15 miles from Manchester, at the confluence of the rivers Goyt and Sett, close to the border of Cheshire. The town stands above the Torrs, a 70 feet deep gorge, cut through Woodhead Hill Sandstone of the Carboniferous period. It is on the north-western edge of the Peak District, England's first national park.
  New Mills has a population of approximately 12,000, in a civil parish which includes the villages and hamlets of Whitle, Thornsett, Hague Bar, Rowarth, Brookbottom, Gowhole and most of Birch Vale.
  New Mills was first noted for coal mining, then for cotton spinning, bleaching and calico printing. New Mills was served by the Peak Forest Canal, three railway lines and the A6 trunk road. Redundant mills were bought up in the mid-twentieth century by sweet manufacturer Swizzels Matlow. New Mills was a stronghold of Methodism.
context_section_description: The Peak Forest Canal was watered in 1796. It passes through Newtown, where there is a marina. It follows the 155m contour.
caption: The Peak Forest Canal wharf at Newtown.
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