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mill, Bowston
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Bowston Mill
site name:-   Kent, River
locality:-   Bowston
civil parish:-   Strickland Roger (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   mill
coordinates:-   SD49869663
1Km square:-   SD4996
10Km square:-   SD49

notes:-  
It is not quite clear from Somervell's report whether there was one or two mills here: on the left bank, small and very old, and gone; on the right bank built by James Cropper, 1847.

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

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