Stanley Mills is first mapped in 1931 when it was a weaving mill producing rugs and maps. The site has been reused in the production of steel wire from the 1960s. The industrial site has expanded over an area of previous gas works. Land was probably surveyed enclosure of common land as field boundaries were very straight and there is an area known as Common Cliff nearby. There is no legibility of this enclosed landscape in the layout of the mill site no former boundaries are respected.