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Fellfoot Mill, Over Staveley
Fellfoot Mill
Goose How Bobbin Mill
site name:-   Kent, River
Street:-   Browfoot Lane
locality:-   Fellfoot
civil parish:-   Over Staveley (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   water mill (ex) 
locality type:-   mill (ex) 
locality type:-   bobbin mill (ex) 
coordinates:-   SD46399984
1Km square:-   SD4699
10Km square:-   SD49

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 2) 
placename:-  Fellfoot 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.
"FellFoot Mill (Bobbin) / Weir / Sluice / Mill Race / ..."

notes:-  
On a map of the watershed, 1844, it was named Goose How Bobbin Mill. Rebuilt 1860, serious fire 1865. Water wheel replaced by a 'turbine'. In use up to 1899-1901; by 1928 nothing much was left, stone quarried for house building ...

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

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