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Burneside Papermill, Burneside
Burneside Papermill
site name:-   Kent, River
site name:-   Burneside Tramway
locality:-   Burneside
civil parish:-   Strickland Ketel (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   paper mill
coordinates:-   SD50609586
1Km square:-   SD5095
10Km square:-   SD59

photograph
BTU58.jpg (taken 19.11.2010)  
photograph
BJZ40.jpg  From Potter Fell.
(taken 9.11.2005)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 16) 
placename:-  Burneside Mill
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Burneside Mill (Paper) / Weir / Mill Race"
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5SD59NW.jpg
circle with rays; water mill 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

photograph
CFV46.jpg  Papermaking mould, of forerunner papermaker.
(taken 23.2.2017)  courtesy of Mark Cropper
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CFV47.jpg  Watermark wires of Hudson, Nicholson, and Foster:-
"H N & F / 1838" (taken 23.2.2017)  courtesy of Mark Cropper
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CFV48.jpg  Model locomotive, Rachel, and wagons
"JAMES CROPPER & CO. LTD. / BURNESIDE PAPER MILLS / ... KENDAL" (taken 23.2.2017)  courtesy of Mark Cropper
notes:-  
 The mill was there in the 18th century, for cotton? woollens, and 'patent candle wick cutting engine manufactory'. In 1833 it became a paper mill, bought by James Cropper, 1845.

Somervell, John: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland
person:-   paper maker
 : Cropper, James and Co
date:-   1833
Was a woollen mill, converted to paper making 1833.
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