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A History of the County of Stafford
… 13th century and in the 1340s the abbey acquired a fulling mill on the Trent. 2 The abbey was sufficiently wealthy to … of the 16th century, with the existing medieval fulling mill on the river Trent supplemented by two new ones, built … starting with the conversion c. 1720 of a disused fulling mill into a forge. 6 In the mid 1750s Burton attracted the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 1937, p. 84; S.R.O., D. 603/A/ADD/ 1211. The bridge called Mill bridge in 1368 still existed in 1757: S.R.O., D. (W.) …
A History of the County of Stafford
… to Burton in 1780 on the opening of Robert Peel's cotton mill, there was no meeting in Burton. He accordingly held …
A History of the County of Stafford
… tackled by negotiating the temporary closure of the flint mill and the removal of an eel trap there; the commissioners … the urban sanitary authority, purchased the former cotton mill building at Bond End and set up a central waste disposal …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was established in 1847, with a clubhouse near the corn mill in Winshill. 4 There was another club, Burton Anglesey, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… erected in 1836, at a cost of 300. At Holmfirth and New-Mill are district churches, the former an ancient structure; … of the oolite formation, with fossils, is abundant. A mill for spinning worsted-yarn affords employment to about …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… a(140) Site of Windpump (TL 54736935), known as Josiah's Mill, is mile S.E. of the Engine House (139) on the edge of … of a circular mound 20 ft. in diameter and 1 ft. high. The mill was in existence in 1886 (O.S. 25-inch map, … a photograph shows that it was then a small skeleton mill with an internal scoop wheel (Plate 11). a(141) Site of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… parish property in 1969. 42 The parallel lane, now called Mill Lane, once uninhabited, which formed a back lane east of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… boonworks, haymaking, and carrying corn to the barn and mill, to fairs, and to Ramsey itself. Those holding 8 a. or … the south-east East field (960 a.), called by the 1530s 10 Mill field from the windmills at its north-west end, curved … and Richmond manors each had two water mills. 1 A Ramsey mill near the Holms ceased working, 1130 X 1150, for lack of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… flour-mills, saw-mills, a considerable flax-mill, fire-brick works, alkali-works, and ropewalks; and on …