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Holmescales Mill, Holmescales
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Holmescales Mill
site name:-   Park House Beck
locality:-   Holmescales
civil parish:-   Old Hutton and Holmescales (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   bobbin mill
coordinates:-   SD55838749 (about) 
1Km square:-   SD5587
10Km square:-   SD58

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 43) 
placename:-  Holmescales 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.
"Holmescales Mill (Bobbin)"

notes:-  
At Gill House. Bobbin mill, but also a maker of Billycock hats. The mill was pulled down as it had become unsafe.

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

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