Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Stainton Mill, Stainton | ||
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| Stainton Mill | ||
| site name:- | St Sunday's Beck | |
| locality:- | Stainton | |
| civil parish:- | Stainton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | water mill | |
| locality type:- | mill | |
| coordinates:- | SD52788621 (about) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5286 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD58 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 8) placename:- Stainton 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. OS County Series (Wmd 43 5) "Stainton Mill (Woollen) / Mill Race / Mill Dam" |
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Spinning and weaving, the cloth was said to be |
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| "so good you were tired of the sight of it before it wore out" |
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| There was a weaving shed across the road, presumably what is now Mill House. The mill
was taken down 1925. |
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| Somervell, John: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland |
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