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Rawes Mill, Staveley
Rawes Mill
site name:-   Gowan, River
locality:-   Staveley
civil parish:-   Hugill (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   mill (ex) 
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   textile mill (spinning) 
locality type:-   bobbin mill
coordinates:-   SD46589822
1Km square:-   SD4698
10Km square:-   SD49

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 6) 
placename:-  Rawes 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.
"Rawes Mill (Bobbin) / Weir / Mill Race / Mill Dam"

notes:-  
Built early 19th century by Richard Rawes for spinning. The water wheel was replaced by a turbine about the 1870s. It became Garden Crafts, Messrs Mawson; and later a bobbin mill.

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

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