Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Old Mill Cottage, Borrowdale | ||
| Old Mill Cottage | ||
| site name:- | Combe Gill | |
| civil parish:- | Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | mill | |
| locality type:- | water mill | |
| locality type:- | corn mill | |
| coordinates:- | NY25331343 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2513 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY21 | |
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 BTO95.jpg (taken 22.9.2010) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70 14) |
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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. "Corn Mill" |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1809 item:- water wheel |
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| source data:- | Print, soft ground etching, Mill in Borrowdale, now Old Mill Cottage on Combe Gill,
Borrowdale, Cumberland, by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland,
and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809. click to enlargeGN0370.jpg Plate 70 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature. printed in introductory pages to set of prints:- "Number 70. Coom Gill, on which this building is situated, ..." printed at bottom:- "MILL IN BORROWDALE. / Published Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809, by W. Green." item:- Armitt Library : A6637.70 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | probably old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s |
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| source data:- | Drawing, pencil, water mill, presumably Old Mill Cottage, Combe Gill, Borrowdale,
Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 12 May 1853. click to enlargeAS0379.jpg "mill near the chapel / Borrodale / good subject for careful study" page number "62" item:- Armitt Library : 1958.390.79 Image © see bottom of page |
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