Qualla: Millom https://qualla.com/millom en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/s/millom-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Millom https://qualla.com/millom Millom: Introduction https://qualla.com/millom/ Photo credit Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0. Until the 1860s, Millom barely existed. There was a 12th-century parish church called Holy Trinity, a dilapidated castle that had been a wreck since 1739, and a small hamlet called Holborn Hill with a railway halt and a brickworks. Then the Hodbarrow Mining Company found haematite — high-grade, phosphorus-free iron ore — between Holborn Hill and the seashore, and everything changed inside a decade. Furnaces went up in 1866. A grid of terraced streets followed. A library, a police station, banks, hotels, a school, and a market square arrived. By 1899 there was a town where there had been a hamlet, and by the 1960s Millom had grown to almost 11,000 people. Then the mines and the ironworks closed, all in 1968. By the 1971 census, the population had fallen to 7,101.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/s/millom-wp/gcts-millom-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Millom: The Sea Held Back https://qualla.com/millom/ Photo credit Perry Dark, CC BY-SA 2.0. Hodbarrow's iron lay close to the shore — and as the mines extended outward under the beach and the Duddon estuary, the sea became a problem. Three successive seawalls were built to hold it off, the last and largest finished in 1905 after five years of work and at a cost of almos...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/s/millom-wp/gcts-millom-the-sea-held-back.mp3 0:06 2 full Millom: The Town the Poet Made https://qualla.com/millom/ Photo credit Alex McGregor, CC BY-SA 2.0. Norman Nicholson was born in Millom in 1914 and spent his entire life in the town — almost without exception, on the same street. T.S. Eliot, then a director at Faber and Faber, published his poetry. Nicholson wrote about the ironworks closing, the seawall holding, the fells visi...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/s/millom-wp/gcts-millom-the-town-the-poet-made.mp3 0:06 3 full Millom: Older Than Almost Everyone https://qualla.com/millom/ Photo credit Andy Deacon, CC BY-SA 2.0. Millom Rugby League Club was founded in 1873. It is the oldest existing amateur rugby league club in the world. Millom's rugby union club was also founded in 1873, making it among the oldest rugby clubs in England — and they meet in the same town. The town's other heritage runs f...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/s/millom-wp/gcts-millom-older-than-almost-everyone.mp3 0:06 4 full Millom: What the Estuary Holds https://qualla.com/millom/ Photo credit The wub, CC BY-SA 3.0. Two nature reserves now sit where industrial Millom once worked. Hodbarrow Nature Reserve, owned by the RSPB, lies south of town on the Duddon Estuary — designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and internationally important for terns, wading birds, and wintering wildfowl....

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