High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! May Mill, Pemberton is a cotton spinning mill in Pemberton, Wigan, Greater Manchester. Historically in Lancashire, it was built in 1889. It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1962–63 to produce carpet fibre, and this it continued to do until its final closure on Friday, 17 October 1980.