Low Moor, Lancashire

Low Moor is a hamlet which is part of the town of Clitheroe, located in Lancashire, England.

In the nineteenth century, the hamlet was home to Low Moor Mill, "a most extensive cotton manufacture, with power looms, put in motion by an immense body of machinery".

[1] Employment and census data from the community has provided an important case study in the social history of the nineteenth century cotton industry.

Two diaries of historical interest survive, one written by the weaver John O'Neill, and one by a co owner of the factory, James Garnett.

The 1840 mill was powered by 3 iron waterwheels on a leet from the River Ribble, supplemented by beam engines.