Romiley, or Chadkirk is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England, located 7.9 miles (12.7 km) south east of Manchester, 5.1 kilometres (3.2 mi) east of Stockport and 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of Hyde.

This stretch of the Goyt, shares much of it history with Stockport whose textile tradition started with the silk industry in the late 17th Century.

[3] Chadkirk was known for bleaching, where finished cloth was left stretched over tenter frames over the landscape.

Though an important early milltown Stockport was very late in embracing the joint stock limited liability company boom.

The Bank of England set up the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in 1929 to attempt to rationalise and save the industry.

Elder Mill was powered by a 600 hp (450 kW) vertical cross compound engine by Daniel Adamson, installed in 1937.