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Stainton Mill, Stainton
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Stainton Mill
site name:-   St Sunday's Beck
locality:-   Stainton
civil parish:-   Stainton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   mill
coordinates:-   SD52788621 (about) 
1Km square:-   SD5286
10Km square:-   SD58

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 8) 
placename:-  Stainton 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.
OS County Series (Wmd 43 5) 
"Stainton Mill (Woollen) / Mill Race / Mill Dam"

notes:-  
Spinning and weaving, the cloth was said to be
"so good you were tired of the sight of it before it wore out"
There was a weaving shed across the road, presumably what is now Mill House. The mill was taken down 1925.

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

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