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Crook Mill, Crook
Crook Mill
site name:-   Eller Beck (8)
Street:-   Dobby Lane
locality:-   Crook
civil parish:-   Crook (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   mill (ex) 
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   textile mill (woollen) 
locality type:-   bobbin mill (once) 
coordinates:-   SD46129508
1Km square:-   SD4695
10Km square:-   SD49


photograph
BVT48.jpg (taken 23.12.2011)  
photograph
BVT51.jpg  Millbeck cottages, once workers' accommodation.
(taken 23.12.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 14) 
placename:-  Crook 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.
"Crook Mill (Woollen) / Mill Dam"

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
J5SD49NE.jpg
circle with rays; water mill 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland


photograph
BVT49.jpg  Warehouse door.
(taken 23.12.2011)  
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BVT50.jpg  Topiary.
(taken 23.12.2011)  


photograph
BVD94.jpg  courtesy of Deirdre Linton
photograph
BVD95.jpg  courtesy of Deirdre Linton
The larger mill buildings have all gone.

notes:-  
The mill was owned by the Harrison Family from about 1841 to its closure in 1909.
The mill dam was at SD46079522.


Somervell, John: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland

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