Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Kentmere Pottery, Kentmere | ||
| Kentmere Pottery | ||
| site name:- | Park Beck | |
| civil parish:- | Kentmere (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | pottery | |
| locality type:- | craft shop | |
| locality type:- | water mill (ex) | |
| locality type:- | mill (ex) | |
| coordinates:- | NY45420164 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4501 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY40 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 13) |
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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. "Saw Mill / Weir / Sluice / Mill Race" |
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| notes:- |
The saw mill was built to cut sleepers for the Kendal and Windermere Railway, about
1847 using a larch wood to the north. It closed in the 1860s. It was powered by Park
Beck. |
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| Somervell: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland |
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