Why Quarry Bank?

• Bridgewater Canal

  Useful for trading goods and transport
• River Bollin

  Fast flowing river to power Mill's machinery

  Key for power source before invention of steam power in 1796
• Cheap rent

  Upwards hill

  Impossible to use for agriculture

  Boggy marshland

  Not directly in city centre (countryside)
• Liverpool & Manchester

  Had a close proximity to key trading cities in the industrial revolution to allowed trade and maximum sales for Greg