Gelt Mill, Greenwell | ||
Gelt Mill | ||
site name:- | Castle Carrock Beck (?) | |
site name:- | Gelt, River | |
locality:- | Greenwell | |
civil parish:- | Hayton (formerly Cumberland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | buildings | |
locality type:- | mill (ex) | |
locality type:- | water mill | |
locality type:- | corn mill | |
coordinates:- | NY53695654 | |
1Km square:- | NY5356 | |
10Km square:- | NY55 | |
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CBG53.jpg (taken 28.7.2014) CBG54.jpg Archway, and inscriptions:- "TandSV" "V, T and S" "G. R / Miller" "M, G R" "JR" "R, J" "17 / 16" (taken 28.7.2014) |
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evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 25 1) placename:- Gelt 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. "Gelt Mill (Corn) / Sluice / Mill Race" the mill race from Castle Carrock Beck; also fed from a sluice on the Gelt |
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evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1
inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29
Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774. D4NY55NW.jpg circle with rays, mill wheel; a water mill at Greenwell item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library |
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evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Gelt Mill |
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source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "GELT MILL / / / HAYTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 78035 / NY5369456542" |
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source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Disused water corn mill. 1775, on site of earlier mill and incorporating earlier features, with C20 alterations. Red sandstone rubble, Welsh slate roofs (of late 1970s), rebuilt stone chimney stacks. 3 joined buildings: mill with wheel house, central loading bay/kiln, and granary/storehouse left. Mill of 3 storeys, 2 storeys to rear, has arched entrance with impost blocks and keystone, surround inscribed by successive millers. Unglazed windows have plain surrounds. 2-storey, one-bay lean-to extension to right front has similar openings. Right is single-storey, one-bay wheel house, containing iron mill wheel. Interior of mill contains original machinery for grinding, partly dismantled. Loading bay/kiln of 2 storeys has plank door with keyed flat arch, loft above. Storehouse/granary of 2 storeys, 2 bays has been altered with C20 windows to front and rear. Mill pond to rear of house now dry and stream diverted away from mill. Building in process of conversion at time of resurvey. See, M. Davies-Shiel, Watermills of Cumbria, 1978, p57." |
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