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New Sedgwick Gunpowder Mills, Helsington
New Sedgwick Gunpowder Mills
locality:-   Sedgwick
civil parish:-   Helsington (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   gunpowder mill
coordinates:-   SD50868769
1Km square:-   SD5087
10Km square:-   SD58


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CCP71.jpg (taken 13.3.2015)  
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CCP73.jpg  Mill race, into the mill.
(taken 13.3.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 4) 
placename:-  Sedgwick Gunpowder Works
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.
"Sedgwick Gunpowder Works / Mill Race"
labelled at SD510878 

evidence:-   probably old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
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.
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J5SD58NW.jpg
"Mill"
circle with rays; water mill 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Sedgwick Powder Works
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GATEHOUSE AND OFFICE AT SEDGWICK POWDER WORKS / / / HELSINGTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 472818 / SD5084887557"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WORKSHOP COMPLEX AND ATTACHED TURBINE AT SEDGWICK POWDER WORKS / / / HELSINGTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 472820 / SD5086287699"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SEARCH HOUSE AND CLOCKING ON SHED AT SEDGWICK POWDER WORKS / / / HELSINGTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 472819 / SD5086287546"


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CCP72.jpg  Mill race, above.
(taken 13.3.2015)  
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CCP74.jpg  Spillway on mill race.
(taken 13.3.2015)  
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CCP75.jpg  Remains of sluice at mill.
(taken 13.3.2015)  
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CCP76.jpg  Sheds.
(taken 13.3.2015)  
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CCP70.jpg  Gate House,
(taken 13.3.2015)  

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The Records of Kendal have:-
"[1857. 9 April. Application by Walter Charles Strickland of Sizergh Castle for licence to erect mills for the making of gunpowder and magazines for the safe keeping of the powder ...]"
Operated by John Wakefield? from 1857; by Sedgwick Gun Powder Co from 1864; absorbed into , Imperial Chemical Industries, ICI 1917; continued to 1935.

Somervell, John: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland
Tyler, Ian: 2002: Gunpowder Mills of Cumbria: Blue Roc Publications (Threlkeld, Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 9523028 8 8

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