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Old Mill, Staveley
Old Mill
site name:-   Kent, River
locality:-   Staveley
civil parish:-   Over Staveley (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   factory
locality type:-   bobbin mill
coordinates:-   SD47049866
1Km square:-   SD4798
10Km square:-   SD49

photograph
BRY23.jpg (taken 3.12.2009)  
photograph
BRY24.jpg  Sign for the present users:-
"Kentmere" packaging company
(taken 3.12.2009)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 6) 
placename:-  Old Mill
placename:-  Mill, Old
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.
"Old Mill (Woollen)"
tenter frames to the south 
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Kentmere Mills
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"KENTMERE MILLS (PRINTED CARTONS AND BOXES) IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF BARLEY BRIDGE / / / OVER STAVELEY / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76490 / SD4704898632"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Mill. Early to mid C19. Stone rubble walls with through stones, drip courses and quoins. graduated greenslate roof. 4 storeys. 12 windows, mostly late C19 casements in original openings with shallow segmental arches and slate voussoirs, some blocked."
notes:-  
 Perhaps this is the old bobbin mill at Staveley which was once a factory for garden furniture, statuary, summer houses, pergolas,, seats, etc etc., made by Garden Crafts Ltd. These items were used by Thomas H Mawson in his landscaping.

Waymark, Janet: 2009: Thomas Mawson, Life, Gardens and Landscapes: Lincoln, Francis (London)

photograph
BSA25.jpg  Clock:-
"1882" and bellcote
(taken 3.12.2009)  
notes:-  
 ... waistcoat factory, bobbin mill, weaving mill, manure grinding, stocking naufacture, photographic paper manufacture, box making, ...

Somervell, John: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland
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