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Dub Mill, Allonby
Dub Mill
locality:-   Dubmill
civil parish:-   Allonby (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Holme St Cuthbert (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   corn mill
coordinates:-   NY07844498
1Km square:-   NY0744
10Km square:-   NY04
SummaryText:-   Across the stream on the sea shore, below a mill pond; adjoining Seacroft Farm.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 27 14) 
placename:-  Dub 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.
Group of buildings and the mill dam, it is not clear which building is the mill.  "Dub Mill (Corn) / Mill Dam"

evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Dubmil
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.
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"Dubmil"
circle 
item:-  JandMN : 169
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   possibly old text:- Gents Mag
placename:-  Dubmill House
item:-  leading line
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
image G7480291, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1748 p.291 
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"... when Dubmill-house and mount Skiddow are in a line, you are on the tail of Dubmill swap, and so may turn down the Salway; 'tis about half a mile broad."

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Dubmill
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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"Dubmill"
circle with rays, mill wheel; a water mill 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

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