Processing and Manufacturing Please choose one ADMINISTRATION AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS COMMUNICATIONS CONFLICT CULTIVATION ENCLOSURES ENERGY EXTRACTION FLOODING GRAZINGS HOUSING KNOWLEDGE LEISURE MANUFACTURE PERCEPTION SETTLEMENTS TRADES Animal products Plant products Textiles Minerals Metals Cotton mills, New Lanark, Lanarkshire Powered machinery for carding and spinning cotton was patented in the late 1760s and early 1770s. The first Scottish cotton mill was established in 1778. Many more were added in the 1780s and early 1790s, concentrated in west-central Scotland. New Lanark, founded in the 1780s, was one of a number of sites where large cotton mills became the focus of new villages. By 1793, there were four mills here. They were operated by a huge workforce which was dominated by children. New Lanark's subsequent fame arose from the comparatively humane conditions which its workforce enjoyed – by no means typical of Scottish experience. Resource pack   1     2     3     4