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| Bark Mill, Ambleside | ||
| Bark Mill | ||
| site name:- | Stock Ghyll | |
| locality:- | Ambleside | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | water mill | |
| locality type:- | mill | |
| locality type:- | fulling mill | |
| coordinates:- | NY37640458 (?) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3704 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Green 1810 placename:- Bark Mill |
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| source data:- | Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature,
by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10,
published 1810. goto sourcepage 22:- "The bark mill is the property of Messrs. Sewart, Tanners, in Ambleside." "..." "The Bark Mill in the last print, composes likewise a part of the present, and the water which turns the wheel is conveyed in a spout from the corn mill, which is seen upon the opposite side of the river. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1810 (plate 8) placename:- Bark Mill item:- water wheel; mill lade; weir |
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| source data:- | Print, soft ground etching, Bark Mill, Ambleside, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside,
Westmorland, 1810. click to enlargeGN1208.jpg Plate 8 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. printed at bottom:- "BARK MILL, AMBLESIDE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1810." item:- Armitt Library : A6641.8 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
Fulling mill from 15th century, bark mill from 17th century, closed 1880. |
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| Kelly, Michelle &Walsh, Deborah: 2015: Mills of Ambleside: Armitt Trust (Ambleside,
Cumbria):: ISBN 0 953944 4 8 |
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