Houses built on the site of a former water powered wire mill. There is not much surviving of the mill building itself but the weirs do survive. Also the short terrace known as Tilt mill cottages would have been built to house the workers in the mill. This gives partial legibility of the water powered site. Before the construction of the mill this land was probably unenclosed as the surrounding fields look to be late 18th early 19th century surveyed enclosures. The first known mention of the Slitting Mill, which later became known as the Tilt Mill, is in 1684 (Andrews 1975,31). A Slitting Mill consists of a mechanised process in which sheets of iron are cut into strips which can be used for wire or nail making (Raistrick 1973,45). The Wortley Iron Works sent iron to be worked in this mill between 1695 and 1700 (Andrews 1975,32). Rod Iron was produced and returned to the works for sale. Large amounts were delivered to the nail makers of Mortomley (ibid,36). The Slitting Mill probably continued in use till Wortley Low Forge installed a Rod Rolling Mill (ibid,82). The Slitting mill continued in use and by the 19th century it was a successful Wire Mill exporting to America and Europe and within England it supplied the needle makers of Reddich (Crossland 1994,223).