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Stockgill Mill, Ambleside
Stockgill Mill
Stock Farm Mill
site name:-   Stock Ghyll
locality:-   Ambleside
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   bobbin mill
coordinates:-   NY38000453
1Km square:-   NY3804
10Km square:-   NY30

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 6) 
placename:-  Stockgill 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.
"Stockgill Mill (Bobbin)"

evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Stockghyll Mill
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Stockghyll Mill, bobbin mill, Ambleside, Westmorland, by W T Longmire, 1867.
image  click to enlarge
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ms, lower left  "W T LONGMIRE 1867"
item:-  Armitt Library : 2014.399
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evidence:-   old print:- Rose 1832-35
source data:-   Print, engraving, The Mill, on the Stock Gill, near Ambleside, by H Gastineau, engraved by T Jeevons, 1833.
image  click to enlarge
R147.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 66.29
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hearsay:-  
Bobbin mill from 1810, later wood turning, closed 1964.


Kelly, Michelle &Walsh, Deborah: 2015: Mills of Ambleside: Armitt Trust (Ambleside, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 953944 4 8

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