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mill, Ambleside
New Mill
Old Mill Tea Room
site name:-   Stock Ghyll
Street:-   Rydal Road
locality:-   Ambleside
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   corn mill
locality type:-   fulling mill
coordinates:-   NY37660459
1Km square:-   NY3704
10Km square:-   NY30

photograph
BQV88.jpg  Now the Old Mill Tea Room
(taken 20.6.209)  
photograph
BQV89.jpg  Over shot water wheel.
(taken 20.6.209)  
evidence:-   possibly old print:- Green 1810 (plate 9) 
item:-  water wheel; mill lade; weir
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Mills at Ambleside, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
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Plate 9 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at top right:-  "9"
printed at bottom:-  "MILLS AT AMBLESIDE. / [ Will]iam Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.9
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evidence:-   old print:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
source data:-   Engraving, Mills at Ambleside, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, on p.97 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.27
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
item:-  drawing
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
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Page 42:-  "... through the stable-yard of the Salutation Inn, when he passes under a tall grove of old trees on the right hand, the stream being on the left. On the opposite bank is the bobbin-mill, the one industrial establishment of Ambleside, placed there on account of the abundant supply of coppice wood obtainable in the neighbourhood. The stacks of wood are seen, high up on the bank; and the ivy-clad dwelling of the proprietor; and then the great water-wheel, with its attendant spouts and weir, and sound of gushing and falling waters."
"..."
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Page 56:-  "... The view of the mill and the rocky channel of the Stock on the left of the bridge is the one which every artist sketches as he passes by; and if there is in the Exhibition in London, in any year, a view at Ambleside, it is probably this. ..."
evidence:-   old print:- Bradley 1901
source data:-   Print, uncoloured lithograph, The Mill at Ambleside, Westmorland, by Joseph Pennell, published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1901.
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On page 220 of Highways and Byways in the Lake District, by A G Bradley. 
printed at lower left:-  "AG"
printed at bottom:-  "The Mill at Ambleside."
item:-  JandMN : 464.56
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Old Mill Studios
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"OLD MILL STUDIOS / / BRIDGE STREET / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 450577 / NY3766204592"
evidence:-   old print:- Pearson 1900s
placename:-  Old Mill, The
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, The Old Mill, Ambleside, Westmorland, published by C Arthur Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s.
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Frontispiece to Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts. 
printed at bottom:-  "THE OLD MILL, AMBLESIDE. / A TYPICAL LAKELAND SCENE."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1188.1
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evidence:-   old print:- 
item:-  miller
source data:-   Print, hand coloured engraving, The Celebrated Mill at Ambleside, Westmoreland, drawn by Ramsay Richard Reinagle, engraved by John Pye, published 1850s?
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printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "Drawn by R. R. Reinagle, A.R.A. / Engraved by John Pye / The CELEBRATED MILL at AMBLESIDE, WESTMORELAND."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.530
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evidence:-   old print:- Sylvan 1847
source data:-   Print, engraving, Mill at Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn by Thomas Gilks, published by John Johnstone, Paternoster Row, London, et al, 1847.
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On p.47 of Sylvan's Pictorial Guide to the English Lakes. 
printed at bottom left, centre:-  "[T GILKS] / MILL AT AMBLESIDE."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1201.13
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Flower 1830s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Mill at Ambleside, Westmorland, by John Flower, 1830s.
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"Mill at Ambleside"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.78.2
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Flower 1830s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Ambleside, the old mill, Westmorland, by John Flower, 1830s.
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"Ambleside"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.78.1
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1821
item:-  mill lade
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Ambleside Corn Mill, by William Green, published at Ambleside, Westmorland, 1821.
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Plate 14 in Thirty Six Etchings from Nature. 
printed at upper left:-  "14"
printed at bottom:-  "AMBLESIDE CORN MILL. / Etched from Nature by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, May 1, 1821."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6638.14
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1821
item:-  water wheel; mill lade; water trough
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Corn and Bark Mills, Ambleside, by William Green, published at Ambleside, Westmorland, 1821.
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Plate 13? in Thirty Six Etchings from Nature. 
printed at bottom:-  "CORN and BARK MILLS, AMBLESIDE. / Etched from Nature by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, May 1, 1821."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6638.13
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photograph
BZS34.jpg (taken 4.12.2013)  
photograph
CDN67.jpg (taken 9.7.2015)  
photograph
CDN68.jpg (taken 9.7.2015)  
hearsay:-  
 Fulling mill from 15th century, corn mill from 1690, closed 1930.

Kelly, Michelle &Walsh, Deborah: 2015: Mills of Ambleside: Armitt Trust (Ambleside, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 953944 4 8
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