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| Waterhouse Mills, Beetham | ||
| Waterhouse Mills | ||
| Beetham Mills | ||
| site name:- | Bela, River | |
| locality:- | Beetham | |
| civil parish:- | Beetham (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | water mill | |
| locality type:- | mill | |
| locality type:- | corn mill (ex) | |
| locality type:- | paper mill | |
| coordinates:- | SD49717989 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4979 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD47 | |
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 BPY83.jpg Weir on The Bela, and the back of Waterhouse Mills. (taken 30.1.2009)  BPY84.jpg Back of Waterhouse Mills. (taken 30.1.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 46 7) placename:- Waterhouse Mill |
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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. "Waterhouse Mill (Paper)" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) |
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| 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. J5SD47NE.jpg "Mills" circle with rays; water mill item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| notes:- |
Recorded from the 14th century, a corn mill. It became a paper mill in 1788, with
a flax mill on the same site for a time. Closed for a time after Word War I, but re-opened
and still operating. |
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| Somervell, John: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland |
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