Armley Mills

Spot, building, farm, …

Leeds, United Kingdom

Further Names: Armley Mill

One of the textile mills belonging to Benjamin Gott in Leeds, acquired by auction in 1805.

Gott rebuilt the mill after it had burned down, installing fireproof features.

Today the mill is run as a museum known as Armley Mills Industrial Museum.

Mentions in Journals

Traveljournal 1814

Leeds, 4 September 1814

Traveljournal 1825

The country home of the Gott family, 27 June 1825
Visit to the Armsley Watermill textile factory, 28 June 1825
Departure from Leeds, 28 June 1825

Traveljournal 1845

Low Moor Ironworks, 28 July 1845

Sources

Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.

External Links

wikipedia (en)

Cite this page as: Armley Mills. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/places/gfa-places-1788, viewed on 17 June 2025.