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mill, Little Salkeld
Little Salkeld Mill
Watermill, The
site name:-   Robberby Water
locality:-   Little Salkeld
civil parish:-   Hunsonby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   corn mill
locality type:-   workplace
coordinates:-   NY56673599
1Km square:-   NY5635
10Km square:-   NY53

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BQM78.jpg (taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM77.jpg  Sign at the mill door:-
"THE TRADITIONAL CORNMILLERS GUILD" decorated with a millstone and corn.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 50 6) 
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.
OS County Series (Cmd 50 7) 
"Corn Mill / Mill Race / Sluice / Weir"
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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D4NY53NE.jpg
circle with rays, mill wheel; a water mill near Little Salkeld 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Corn Mill, The
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE CORN MILL / / / HUNSONBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 74281 / NY5667535980"

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BQM76.jpg (taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM72.jpg  Mill race and sluices over the wheel.
Notice the wooden lever, cords and pulleys. Water comes about half a mile in a lade from Robberby Water, Little Gill, etc.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM73.jpg  Mill race and sluices.
The first sluice, controlled by a wooden lever from inside the mill, lets water out of the race, reducing the power of the wheel. Sluices controlled by cords over pulleys, also from within the mill, can shut off water going to the wheel.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM75.jpg  Iron over shot water wheel.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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CGJ89.jpg  Iron over shot water wheel.
(taken 15.8.2017)  
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CGJ88.jpg  Iron over shot water wheel made by:-
"BARRY HENRY & CO LTD / ENGINEERS ABERDEEN / SCOTLAND" (taken 19.8.2017)  
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BQM74.jpg  Over shot water wheel, smaller, still in regular use.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM82.jpg  Machinery. pit wheel, wallower, etc.
The pit wheel is on the shaft carrying the water wheel. Off this runs the wallower or crown wheel on a vertical oak shaft, its position adjusted by wedges.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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CGJ90.jpg  The great spur wheel.
The great spur wheel, above the wallower, has wooden teeth - these are a safety feature, the first things to break in trouble. Everywhere is dust.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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CGJ91.jpg  A pinion.
This runs off the great spur wheel, but is lifted out of gear; its shaft turns a mill wheel on the floor above.
(taken 15.8.2017)  
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BQM87.jpg  The vat or tun, wherein are the mill wheels.
Over the tun a wooden horse carries a hopper which is filled by an auger. Below hangs a spout or shoe, which is jiggled about by a damsel on the wheel shaft feeding grain into the eye of the runner - the top millstone, the one that goes round. If it isn't by a lever, it's controlled simply and effectively by string! Nowadays the string might be hempen cord or nylon, and might use carabiners as well as knots.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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CGJ92.jpg  A bed stone.
The bedstone is the lower millstone, which does not go round.
(taken 15.8.2017)  
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BQM89.jpg  Mill bill, displayed on a french bed stone.
The bill is used to sharpen the millstone, cutting the grooves that carry the ground flour out to the edge of the mill wheel, to fall into a delivery chute. The bedstone is the lower millstone, which does not go round.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM91.jpg  Plate that marked the use of wheel balances:-
"MILLSTONE BALANCE / CLARKE &DUNHAM / ... / 1859 / PATENTEES" (taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM88.jpg  Wooden gears, worm and spur - and dust.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM96.jpg  Winnower, and an auger.
The winnower separates grain and chaff. A fan at the right end is powered from the water wheel.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM97.jpg  Bolter, to grade flour by a series of cloth sieves.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM98.jpg  The cloth sieves, made of bolting cloth, inside the bolter.
Look carefully at the flour on the ledge of the door. Three grades can be seen; the far end is the finest flour, the nearer is the coarsest.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM94.jpg  Sack hoist, run off the water wheel.
... controlled by the string in the millers right hand. The sack rises through a trap in the ceiling, which falls shut, and through the next ceiling. The bang of the shutting trap above tells the miller to let go the control.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM90.jpg  Crusher, run off the water wheel:-
"BAMFORDS PATENT / No.4C / [ ] GRINDING MILL / UTTOXETER ENGLAND" (taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM85.jpg  A riddle or sieve.
This is run off the small water wheel.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM84.jpg  Filling sacks with flour.
Flour is run down a shaft from above, the sack standing on a sack scales. Notice that the miller is wearing a dust mask.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM93.jpg  A sack for:-
"... / STONEGROUND / 100% WHOLEWHEAT / FLOUR / ..." (taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM92.jpg  Sack scales, older pattern.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM86.jpg  Packing area for flour in bags.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM83.jpg  Packing bags of flour for sale.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BRG17.jpg  The van at Kirkby Stephen market
(taken 3.8.2009)  
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BQM81.jpg  Sign:-
"the watermill / Organic Tearoom &/ Millshop / ..." (taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM80.jpg  Flour for sale in the tea room.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM79.jpg  The tearoom.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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BQM95.jpg  Carpenter's marks:-
"III" for a post and its place in a plate. The joint locked by a wooden peg.
(taken 8.5.2009)  
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