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Muncaster Mill, Muncaster
Muncaster Mill
Muncaster Water Mill
civil parish:-   Muncaster (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   museum (ex) 
coordinates:-   SD09589772
1Km square:-   SD0997
10Km square:-   SD09
SummaryText:-   This is now a private residence.


photograph
BMB90.jpg (taken 11.5.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 82 7) 
placename:-  Muncaster 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.

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.
image
D4SD09NE.jpg
circle with rays, mill wheel; a water mill on the Mite 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

hearsay:-  
Built 1455, though there was probably a mill here before it.

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