Little is recorded about the Silk Mill that this lane takes its name after in Goosnargh. Except local knowledge and archaeology showing it was powered by a waterwheel which once stood adjacent to where the brook crosses the lane. The production of silk yarn and cloth in the Lancashire emerged in the mid-seventeenth century, Goosnargh had a thriving weaving handloom industry from the seventeenth century which reached its peak in the 1820s that saw weavers in their cottages getting the whole family involved in spinning and weaving cotton. It is currently unclear if the mill would have been for silk throwing or silk weaving during its lifetime and where exactly the silk came from but this demonstrates how the industrial revolution reached Goosnargh. There are records of a factory in Goosnargh parish and houses around Inglewhite been purpose built for weaving and then for factory workers which have long since been demolished. We have records of the Silk Bridge, Goosnargh-with-Newsham dates from 1737-1908 so can speculate this was the lifespan of the Silk Mill.
