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| Birch Mill, Crook | ||
| Birch Mill | ||
| site name:- | Eller Beck (8) | |
| locality:- | Crook | |
| civil parish:- | Crook (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | water mill | |
| locality type:- | mill | |
| locality type:- | bobbin mill | |
| locality type:- | foundry | |
| coordinates:- | SD46199489 (?) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4694 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD49 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 14) placename:- Birch 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. "Birch Mill (Machinery) / Mill Dam" |
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| notes:- |
'modern'. First a bobbin mill, then a foundry making bobbin machinery etc. Partly
pulled down in 1900s. |
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| The mill was taken over by John Braithwaite, 1869. He had been apprenticed in bobbin
making, and was a self taught mechanic. He invented the first self-acting bobbin blocking
machine, and a self-acting roughing machine. |
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| Somervell, John: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland |
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