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| Howk Mill, Caldbeck | ||
| Howk Mill | ||
| site name:- | Whelpo Beck | |
| locality:- | Howk | |
| civil parish:- | Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | water mill | |
| locality type:- | mill | |
| locality type:- | bobbin mill | |
| coordinates:- | NY31923976 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3139 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY33 | |
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 BOS80.jpg (taken 1.3.2008)  BOS89.jpg (taken 1.3.2008) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 37 12) |
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| 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. "Bobbin Mill" |
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 BOS90.jpg Plaque:- "AD / 1857" (taken 1.3.2008)  BOS91.jpg (taken 1.3.2008)  BOS92.jpg Coppice shed. (taken 1.3.2008)  BOS81.jpg Weir, above the Fairy Bridge. (taken 1.3.2008) |
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 BOS95.jpg The mill lade was a wooden trough feeding a backshot waterwheel. |
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| hearsay:- |
Howk Mill operated as a bobbin mill from 1857 to 1924. Hardwood felled round about
was seasoned in the coppice shed. it was then debarked and sawn into bobbin roughs
called 'cakes' which were turned into bobbins on a lathe. Wood came from woodland
which had been coppiced earlier for charcoal making. As well as bobbins the mill produced
other turnery - egg cups, handles for tools, washing dollies, etc. |
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