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[[File:Slitting mill.jpg|thumb|upright|Slitting mill, 1813]]
The '''slitting mill''' was a [[watermill]] for [[wikt:slit#Verb|slitting]] bars of iron into rods. The rods then were passed to nailers who made the rods into [[nail (fastener)|nails]], by giving them a point and head.
The slitting mill was probably invented near [[Liège]] in what is now [[Belgium]]. The first slitting mill in England was built at [[Dartford]], Kent in 1590. This was followed by one on [[Cannock Chase]] by about 1611, and then Hyde Mill in [[Kinver]] in 1627. Others followed in various parts of England where iron was made. However there was a particular concentration of them on the [[River Stour, Worcestershire|River Stour]] between [[Stourbridge]] and [[Stourport]], where they were conveniently placed to slit iron that was brought up (or down) the [[River Severn]] before it reached [[Nail (engineering)|nail]]ers in the [[Black Country]].
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