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Millom is a town on the estuary of the River Duddon in Cumbria, England, which, in Victorian Times, was merely a small Hamlet by the name of Holborn Hill. It was historically located as the most southerly town in the old administrative county of Cumberland, and was made famous by the discovery of Iron Ore, and the opening of around the iron works and Iron Ore mines inside Millom. Nowadays most of the population commute to work at either Barrow-in-Furness or Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant. With the change of county boundaries in 1974, Cumberland disappeared when it formed the bulk of the new area of Cumbria.
The secondary school and sixth form college, for pupils from 11-19 years old, houses the adult education centre, the only swimming pool in Millom and the newly opened "Melvyn Bragg Drama Studio". The Millom Palladium is another arts facility in the town, run by the Millom Amateur Operatic Society.
The renowned poet and author Norman Nicholson spent his entire life in Millom, living in a house in St. Georges Terrace, which is now a Health Food shop with diner facilities, commerated by a legendary 'Blue Plaque' above the door.
On both edges of the town, there are Nature Reserves, with the Hodbarrow RSPB on one side, and the Slag Bank on the other. Millom has been granted the status of a Fairtrade town, and the fairtrade group have had some successful campaigns visiting Youth Groups and school, and putting displays in the Library.
The Millom Palladium is one development that it is hoped will help give Millom a mini-rennaisance, alongside a new Youth Centre at the Advice Building, and many more new projects such as a restructuring of the Citizen's Advice Bureau, and the construction of the new Millom Network Centre on the secondary schools premises.
Millom Rugby League Club, based here, claim to be the oldest existing amateur Rugby League team in the world *.
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