Mill town

A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, often cotton mills or factories producing textiles.





== Europe ==





=== Italy ===



Crespi d'Adda, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Nuovo quartiere operaio in Schio

Villaggio Leumann a Collegno

Villaggio Frua in Saronno

Villaggio operaio della Filatura in Tollegno





=== Poland ===





==== Żyrardów ====

The town grew out of a textile factory founded in 1833 by the sons of Feliks Lubienski, who owned the land where it was built. They brought in a specialist from France and his newly designed machines. He was French inventor, Philippe de Girard from Lourmarin. He became a director of the firm. The factory town developed during the 19th century into a significant textile mill town in Poland.

In honour of Girard, 'Ruda Guzowska' as the original estate was called, was renamed Żyrardów, a toponym derived of the polonised spelling of Girard's name.

Most of Żyrardów's monuments are located in the manufacturing area which dates from the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is widely believed that Żyrardów's textile settlement is the only entire urban industrial complex from the 19th-century to be preserved in Europe.





=== Russian Empire ===

Bogorodsk-Glukhovo factory

Nikolskoye, Vladimir Governorate





=== United Kingdom ===



In the United Kingdom, the term "mill town" usually refers to the 19th-century textile manufacturing towns of northern England and the Scottish Lowlands, particularly those in Lancashire (cotton) and Yorkshire (wool).