East Midlands

Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village

S01E04
November 26, 2018 ★ 7.0 30 min

Overview

The story of Cromford. A picturesque Derbyshire village at the heart of famous industrialist Sir Richard Arkwright's mechanised cotton mills and a textile revolution. Presenter and archaeologist Ben Robinson discovers it wasn't just an industrial revolution. Cromford became a new kind of village, built to service the enterprise of this powerful man.

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