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Monkhill Mill, Monkhill
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Monkhill Mill
site name:-   Greathill Beck
locality:-   Monkhill
locality:-   Hadrian's Wall
civil parish:-   Beaumont (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   windmill
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   corn mill
coordinates:-   NY34025869
1Km square:-   NY3458
10Km square:-   NY35

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 16) 
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.
"Monkhill Mill"

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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circle with rays, mill wheel; a water mill at Munkhill 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
item:-  riot
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
image G812A480, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1812 part 1 p.480  "The Carlisle Journal states, that tumult and disorder at present prevail in that neighbourhood, and to a greater extent than at any time since the disturbances first broke out. It then proceeds to enumerate a variety of outrages since the 15th, on which day the corn-mill at Monk-hill, near that city, was broken into, and plundered by a number of persons. ..."

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