Editing Bollington (section)

== History ==
[[File:Clarence Mill, Bollington, Cheshire - geograph.org.uk - 574490.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Clarence Mill, and the Macclesfield Canal|[[Clarence Mill]], and the [[Macclesfield Canal]]]]
From the late 18th through to the mid-20th centuries, Bollington was a major centre for [[Cotton-spinning machinery|cotton-spinning]]. Waterhouse Mill, now demolished, off Wellington Road, once spun the finest cotton in the world, and was sought after by [[lace]] makers in [[Nottingham]] and in [[Brussels]], Belgium.

[[Clarence Mill]] still stands. The lower floors remain commercial but the upper floors have been converted into apartments. One of the oldest surviving mills in Bollington is the very small Defiance Mill, built in Queen Street about 1800 and now restored for residential occupation.

There is a large [[coated paper|paper coating]] mill on the site of Lower Mills. The original mill was built by George Antrobus in 1792 but very little of those buildings remain. A stone-built traditional mill still survives amongst the 20thC brick and 21stC steel developments. In the 1830s and 1840s this mill was rented to Thomas Oliver and Martin Swindells for the production of fine cotton thread for the lace-making industry. Lowerhouse Mill (Antrobus, 1819, later occupied by [[Samuel Greg (junior)|Samuel Greg Jnr]]) also remains as an industrial mill, also producing coated papers.

The other remaining mill is Adelphi Mill (Swindells, 1856), which is today entirely commercial.

In 1801, the population was 1,231. In 1851, the population was 4,655. In 1901, it had grown to 5,245. Population growth slowed during the mid-20th century such that by 1951 the population was 5,644. By 2001 the population had reached 7,095, and in 2011 it was 8,310.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CHS/bollington2|title=Genuki: BOLLINGTON (near Macclesfield), Cheshire|last=GENUKI|website=www.genuki.org.uk|language=en|access-date=6 May 2019}}</ref>