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Cummersdale Mill, Cummersdale
Cummersdale Mill
site name:-   Caldew, River
locality:-   Cummersdale
civil parish:-   Cummersdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   textile mill (cotton) 
coordinates:-   NY39475284 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY3952
10Km square:-   NY35

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 23 11) 
placename:-  Cummersdale Mill
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.
"Cotton Mill / Cummersdale Mills"

evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Cummersdale Mill
source data:-   Painting, oil painting, Cummersdale Mill, Cummersdale, Cumberland, by Samuel Bough, about 1844.
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Fine autumn day; Cummersdale mill and its associated buildings stand to left of centre, a plume of smoke rising from the chimney beside it. Several groups of figures are scattered nearby. The foreground is filled by a wide river; a man and his dog are seated on the left hand bank. To right, a steep hillside rises above the wooded riverbank; one house is fully visible standing on the hilltop, a second being partially visible. 
The house is probably Hill House. 
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1936.4.2
Image © Tullie House Museum

hearsay:-  
Built for Forsters of Carlisle, for textile printing, 1801. Used by them to 1817.

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