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A picturesque Derbyshire village - Cromford - was at the heart of famous industrialist Sir Richard Arkwright's mechanised cotton mills and a textile revolution.
Presenter and archaeologist Ben Robinson discovers it wasn't just an industrial revolution.
Cromford became a new kind of village, built to service the enterprise of this powerful man.
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