# Blockley Village Guide - Cotswold Silk Mill History

> Discover Blockley, a golden-stone north Cotswolds village shaped by silk production, where six mills on Blockley Brook once employed around 600 people.

URL: https://cotswolds.info/places/visit-blockley.htm  
Section: Villages & Towns  
Location: Blockley, Gloucestershire (52.011, -1.762)

![viewe from the Cotswold village of Blockley](https://cotswolds.info/images/blockley/blockleyban1.jpg)

Blockley bears some resemblance to the villages of the Stroud valley but the stone much more golden in colour. During the eighteenth century when the wool industry was in decline Blockley turned to silk production. By 1884 six silk mills powered by the fast-flowing Blockley brook provided work for about 600 people preparing silk for ribbon-making factories in Coventry.

![cotswold cottages in Blockley](https://cotswolds.info/images/blockley/banner12.jpg)

This small centre of industry began to decline after 1860 when the levy on imported silk was removed. The village of Blockley is a unique collection of buildings reflecting it's past glory of mills and silk production and is quite different in character to other north Cotswolds villages.

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