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NEW MILLS 
In 1812 John Burgess, a miller from Chorley, bought from John Mitchell the area of land now know as New Mills in order to build a corn mill with a value of "at least £50". Pepper Street was already recognised as one of the communities making up the parish of Mobberley. The mill, which was demolished in the early part of the 20th century, stood at the left of the car park of the Chapel House adjacent to a reservoir fed by a canal which brought water from futher up Mobberley Brook. The water was returned to the brook across the land now occupied by the Chapel House and Millstream Cottage. When these buildings were constructed in the 19th century, a tunnel would have been built underneath them. In 1886 the Burgess family attempted to sell the mill and its outbuildings as one lot, and the three cottages (with tenants) next to the Chapel House (but not the Chapel House itself) at auction. The cottages were sold to Eleanor Barber but it appears the the Mill lot did not and the Burgess family retained it until a later daet when financial troubles forced its sale and it was added to the Egerton estate.
The two maps below are from the 1812 indenture and the 1886 sale particulars.
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Mill Brook Cottage (R)
Bagshaw Cottage "WWM 1757"
Bagshaw Cottage "WWM 1757"
Barnshaw Farm
Barnshaw Farm Buildings
Barnshaw Smithy Renovation 2014
Barnshaw Smithy
Brookside Farm
Brookside Farm
Pepper Street Congregational Chapel 1867
Pepper Street Congregational Chapel 1867
Cornmill Cottage
Mill Stream Cottage 1936
Mill Stream Cottage
Mill Brook Cottage
New Barnshaw Farm
New Mills Cottage "MSM 1803"
Old Barnshaw Cottage
Old Barnshaw Cottage
Barnshaw House
Spring Hollow & Brookside
Summerfield's Gate
Summerfield
Chapel House Inn
Chapel House Inn
Chapel House
c1940s Chapel House courtesy of Peter Grassby