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Mill Gill
runs into:-    St John's Beck

civil parish:-   St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY3219
10Km square:-   NY31
SummaryText:-   ?water is stolen and taken by a leat to Thirlmere?


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BOV25.jpg (taken 17.3.2008)  
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BND88.jpg (taken 5.2.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 65 13) 
placename:-  Mill Gill
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.

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
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.
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D4NY31NW.jpg
single or double wiggly line; a river 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

places:-  
NY321198 waterfall, Mill Gill (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
NY31911973 Legburthwaite Mill (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)
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