Greeting Card Landscape - The weir at Milford

Weirs on the river Derwent in Milford. Milford was once a quiet hamlet in a part of the large deer forest that spread from Duffield to Wirksworth. The village owes its fame to Jedidiah Strutt who set up a water powered cotton mill here in about 1780, and built housing for his workforce. Some of the housing still remains in Hopping Hill and is visible in this photograph. These two-storey stone terraced houses were built in 1793-4 using a good deal of ironwork from Strutt's Milford foundry. The remainder of the building associated with the mill were demolished between 1952 and 1964. The remaining buildings are used by small businesses and a mill shop.