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Milton Mill, Preston Richard
Milton Mill
site name:-   Peasey Beck
locality:-   Milton
civil parish:-   Preston Richard (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   water mill (ex) 
locality type:-   mill (ex) 
locality type:-   corn mill (ex) 
coordinates:-   SD53058287
1Km square:-   SD5382
10Km square:-   SD58
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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CCQ10.jpg (taken 13.3.2015)  
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CCQ12.jpg  Date stone:-
"J. W. Esq. / 1863" (taken 13.3.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 43 13) 
placename:-  Milton 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.
"Milton Mill (Corn) / Mill Race / Weir / ..."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Milton Mill House
item:-  date stone (1863)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILTON MILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED MILL / / / PRESTON RICHARD / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76532 / SD5305382870"


photograph
CCQ08.jpg (taken 13.3.2015)  
photograph
CCQ09.jpg  Mill stone etc.
(taken 13.3.2015)  
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CCQ11.jpg  House.
(taken 13.3.2015)  

notes:-  
Recorded from the 13th century. Still working in 1900s.

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

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