Human activity, Manufacture

Crespi d'Adda
Crespi d'Adda is a nineteenth-century model worker’s village. It is certainly the most interesting example in Italy of the phenomenon of workers' villages.
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Derwent Valley Mills
The story of the Derwent Valley Mills starts in 1771, when Richard Arkwright began to build a water powered mill at Cromford.
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Engelsberg Ironworks
Iron mining and smelting in this area started to take on some scale in the 17th century. Due to its modern machinery and construction, Engelsberg became one of the most important ironworks in Sweden and Europe a century later.
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Great Copper Mountain
The Great Copper Mountain and its associated cultural landscape around Falun is one of the most enduring and complete monuments of the world's industrial heritage.
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Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
Humberstone and Santa Laura works contain over 200 former saltpeter works where workers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia lived in company towns and forged a distinctive communal pampinos culture.
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Ironbridge Gorge
The Ironbridge Gorge is a deep gorge formed by the river Severn in Shropshire. The gorge takes its name from its famous Iron Bridge, the first iron bridge of its kind in the world, and a monument to the industry that began there.
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New Lanark
New Lanark is a village founded in 1786 by David Dale, who built cotton mills and housing for the mill workers.
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Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
The Saline Royale (Royal Saltworks) at Arc-et-Senans, in the forest of Chaux near Besançon, France is notable as an early Enlightenment architectural project to rationalize industrial buildings and processes according to a philosophical order.
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Saltaire
Saltaire is a Victorian era model village in West Yorkshire, England. Saltaire was founded by Sir Titus Salt in 1853.
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Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
Verla at Jaala, Finland, is a well preserved 19th century mill village. The first groundwood mill at Verla was founded in 1872 by Hugo Nauman but was destroyed by fire in 1876.
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Völklingen Ironworks
The 'Völklinger Hütte' was founded in 1873 by Julius Buch. Under the direction of the Röchling family (from 1881 on) it developed into one of the most important iron and steel works in Europe.
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