Dolphinholme is a historic village in Lancashire, North West England. In the 18th and 19th centuries the village played an important part in the Industrial Revolution. Thomas Hinde founded a mill in Lower Dolphinholme in 1795. This worsted mill prospered and in 1811 the lower village was amongst the first in the United Kingdom to have gas lighting. The Poll…
Dolphinholme is a historic village in Lancashire, North West England. In the 18th and 19th centuries the village played an important part in the Industrial Revolution. Thomas Hinde founded a mill in Lower Dolphinholme in 1795. This worsted mill prospered and in 1811 the lower village was amongst the first in the United Kingdom to have gas lighting. The Pollution was fed away from the village underground to the mill's chimney which was located in a nearby field.