Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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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 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 43) placename:- Holmescales Mill |
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| 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)" |
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| notes:- |
At Gill House. Bobbin mill, but also a maker of Billycock hats. The mill was pulled
down as it had become unsafe. |
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| Somervell, John: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland |
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