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fulling mills, Docker Nook
locality:-   Docker Nook
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   fulling mill
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   tenter ground
coordinates:-   NY506012? and NY504012
1Km square:-   NY5001
10Km square:-   NY50
references:-   : 2009: Archaeology Data Service &ADS

evidence:-   possibly old text:- 
source data:-   :: Records of Kendal "[1364. Rich'd de Wysebech vicar of the ch. of Ky. in Lunesdale and Robt. Banes chaplain grant to Wm. son of Roland de Thorneburgh the lands and tenements of Sleddale with wastes and waters as they lie between Lyttel Sleddale bekke and the tenement ... on the west side of the water of Sprynt, with licence to make a mill dam, both in their part of the water of Sprynt and his part for their benefit ...]"

notes:-  
There is said to have been a fulling mill here, and an ?associated tenter ground.

: 2009: Archaeological Data Service &ADS
Sumervell, John: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland

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