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mill, Skelwith Bridge (2)
locality:-   Skelwith Bridge
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   bobbin mill
coordinates:-   NY34300342 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY3403
10Km square:-   NY30

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 9) 
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.
"Bobbin Mill"

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  circular sawsawbarn
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, bobbin mill at Skelwith Bridge, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
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internegative at lower right:-  "H. Bell."
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS69
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