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Mill Cottage, Garnett Bridge
Mill Cottage
locality:-   Garnett Bridge
civil parish:-   Strickland Roger (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   corn mill (ex) 
coordinates:-   SD52379920
1Km square:-   SD5299
10Km square:-   SD59
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010

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BXU29.jpg  The mill etc.
(taken 11.1.2013)  
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BXU30.jpg  Cottage to the right.
(taken 11.1.2013)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 8) 
placename:-  
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.
"Corn Mill / Weir / Mill Race / Sluice"
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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J5SD59NW.jpg
circle with rays; water mill 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Mill Cottage
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILL COTTAGE, MILL AND ATTACHED BARNS / / GARNETT BRIDGE / STRICKLAND ROGER / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76430 / SD5237899203"

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BXU21.jpg  Mile lade in front of mill.
(taken 11.1.2013)  
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BXU22.jpg  Old mill stones.
(taken 11.1.2013)  
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BXU23.jpg  Breast shot water wheel.
(taken 11.1.2013)  
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BXU24.jpg  Breast shot water wheel.
(taken 11.1.2013)  
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BXU25.jpg  Breast shot water wheel.
(taken 11.1.2013)  
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BXU26.jpg  Parts of a wagon.
(taken 11.1.2013)  
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BXU27.jpg  Wagon nameplate:-
"MRS THOMPSON / GARNETT BRIDGE. / Westmorland." (taken 11.1.2013)  
notes:-  
 'Immediately below' the saw mill.
There was a malt kiln, which was later converted for religious meetings, latterly the Rural Church Association.
Various directories give the miller's name: John Dickinson, 1829; Nathan Martindale, 1849; Nathan Hunter, perhaps Matthew, 1869; Matthew Hunter, 1879-94; Mary Agnes Thompson, 1905.

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