Stakehill history.

Yates’ Map of 1786 shows a number of hamlets within the region, with Stakehill the only substantial settlement. A number of farmsteads were established during the 19th century, as well as a bleachworks, which eventually grew into Stakehill Industrial Estate.

Like today the site developed due to its prime communication network. Today it’s the motorway network, then it was the Rochdale canal and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Line, which dates back to 1794. Both are located to the west of the site, and provided significant benefits of transportation, not least bulk deliveries of coal, alongside a ready supply of water vital to the operation of the steam engines that powered the industrial supremacy of Manchester.

To the north of the Site, textile mills such as Westbrooke Mill, Albion Mill, Linden Mill and Bluepits Mill, were established along the route of the Rochdale Canal.