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| Milnthorpe Mill, Milnthorpe | ||
| Milnthorpe Mill | ||
| Bela Mill | ||
| site name:- | Bela, River | |
| locality:- | Milnthorpe | |
| civil parish:- | Milnthorpe (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | mill | |
| locality type:- | water mill | |
| locality type:- | corn mill | |
| locality type:- | textile mill (spinning) | |
| locality type:- | paper mill | |
| coordinates:- | SD49458131 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4981 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD48 | |
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 BUN47.jpg (taken 6.5.2011) |
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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. J5SD48SE.jpg circle with rays; water mill item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| hearsay:- |
A mill about here was given to St Mary's Abbey, York, by Ivo de Tailebois, 1094. The
Archbishop of York, William Booth, granted it to Heversham church, 1460. The mill
was a corn mill, and was later a spinning mill for flax, hemp, wool and cotton. |
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| Somervell, John: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland |
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