Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Eskdale Mill, Boot


	Eskdale Mill, Boot
	Eskdale Mill
	Eskdale Corn Mill
	Boot Mill
site name:-	Whillan Beck
locality:-	Boot
civil parish:-	Eskdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	museum
locality type:-	art gallery
locality type:-	mill
locality type:-	water mill
locality type:-	workplace
coordinates:-	NY17640115
1Km square:-	NY1701
10Km square:-	NY10

	BYF21.jpg (taken 27.4.2013) BMW26.jpg (taken 13.10.2006)

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Eskdale Corn Mill
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "ESKDALE CORN MILL / / / ESKDALE / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 76210 / NY1764201146"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Corn Mill. Mentioned in 1578 Percy family Survey; extended (and 2nd waterwheel added) for Edward Hartley, miller 1737-72. Restored 1975 for Cumbria County Council. Snecked rubble with quoins. Graduated slate roofs with stone ridges. T-shaped plan on sloping site. Main building, 2 low storeys comprising peat store with drying floor above, mill machinery, and adjoining store wing (now exhibition area); single-storey lean-to bakehouse adjoins south end. West elevation: Higher north block has plank door to each floor and asymmetrical casement windows; wing has cart entrance on north side and plank door with 2 windows on south; south block has plank door to lower floor under slate canopy; plank door and casement window to bakehouse. East elevation: Two 12 ft overshot waterwheels to south block (both iron-framed, one in working order with wooden floats). Interior: Perforated metal drying floor heated by peat kiln below; intact wooden machinery on both floors (2 grindstones); beehive oven and copper in bakehouse. Now open to public."

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "BUILDING TO SOUTH WEST OF CORN MILL ON EAST SIDE OF ROAD AT NORTH END OF BRIDGE / / / ESKDALE / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76211 / NY1763901133"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Outbuilding, now used for storage. Probably mid/late C18 (when Mill was enlarged). Snecked rubble with quoins. Graduated slate roof; ball finial to each end of stone ridge. 2 storeys, single bay. North elevation: Plank ground floor with small window above. Steps up to plank 1st floor door on west return."

evidence:-	old print:- Barber and Atkinson 1927
source data:-	Print, halftone photograph, Whillan Beck and Old Mill, Boot, Eskdale, Cumberland, by E H Atkinson, published by James Atkinson, Caxton Printing Works, Ulverston, Lancashire, 1928. click to enlarge AK0403.jpg Tipped in opposite p.18 of Lakeland Passes, by John B Barber and George Atkinson, 1927, 3rd edn 1928. at inter negative:- "BOOT, WHILLAN BECK &OLD MILL / Atkinson's Series 949" printed at bottom:- "Photo E. H. Atkinson) Beginning of Walk from Boot over Burn Moor to Wasdale Head. (To face plage 18." item:- JandMN : 350.4 Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-	old print:- Rose 1832-35 (vol.2 no.72) placename:- Eskdale Mill
source data:-	Print, uncoloured engraving, Eskdale Mill, Wilton Beck, Cumberland, drawn by Thomas Allom, engraved by A Le Petit, published by Fisher, Son and Co, London, 1834. click to enlarge PR0031.jpg vol.2 pl.72 in the set of prints, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland Illustrated. The beck is the Whillan Beck. printed at bottom left, right, centre:- "T. Allom. / A. Le Petit. / ESKDALE MILL, WILTON BECK, CUMBERLAND. / FISHER, SON &CO. LONDON, 1834." item:- Dove Cottage : 2008.107.31 Image © see bottom of page

	BMW23.jpg (taken 13.10.2006) BMW24.jpg (taken 13.10.2006) BMW25.jpg (taken 13.10.2006)

	BYF24.jpg Outbuilding. (taken 27.4.2013) BMW22.jpg Outbuilding. (taken 13.10.2006)

hearsay:-	There has been a corn mill here since at least 1294. The present mill was recorded in 1578, at which time Henry and Robert Vicars were the millers.

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