Learn how the UK was the centre and main force behind the industrial revolution! Enjoy a self-drive tour of Manchester, Lancashire and Yorkshire, the centre of the famous industrial revolution and the cotton industry.
Begin by heading south of Manchester to Quarry Bank Mill, one of the best-preserved textile mills of the industrial revolution. Visit the museum here before heading north into Lancashire, true ‘Cotton Country’. Blackburn was one of the first industrialised towns in the world, documented in the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery.
Next, drive to Harle outside of Burnley where you will visit the Queen Street Mill, a Grade-I listed building and home to one of the world’s only surviving steam-driven weaving sheds. Your final stop today will be to the town of Saltaire, a Victorian model village and mill and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
