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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… eight houses. At that period Messrs. Strutt built a cotton-mill, and the firm has now a large cotton-manufactory and … is generally light and shallow, resting upon gravel. At Mill Place are a large foundry, and works for the manufacture … The church has been enlarged.See Redbridge and Shirley. Mill-Hill MILL-HILL, an ecclesiastical district, in the …
A Dictionary of London
… 1677-Boyle, 1799). Site now covered by St. Bride Street. Mill Alley See Great Bell Alley, Coleman Street. Mill Bridge In St. Catherine's Thames Street (P.C. 1732). Not … Fastolf (Ct. H.W. II. 49). Possibly to be identified with Mill Alley, near "le Towne Dyche," in parish of St. Stephen, …
A History of the County of Essex
… one in Greenstead, and two in Lexden in 1086. Middle mill, recorded c. 1101, was probably omitted from the survey … mills, only the two Lexden mills, the later Lexden mill and North mill, can be certainly identified, but the Greenstead mill …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to Eynsham abbey, two 'near the wall', probably on Trill mill stream, and the Castle mill. 2 In the Middle Ages there were mills at Oseney and … within or just outside the liberty, notably Langford mill (probably on the site of the later Hinksey mill) at the …
A History of the County of York
… flour and malt: it was to apply to all millers having 'any mill, windmill, watermill or horsemill within this city, … there were only two water-mills. Hob Moor, or Folly, Water-mill stood on Holgate Beck adjoining the moor. Together with … 1605 the rent, then 20 s. a year, was excused because the mill was at times used to house plague victims and, when it …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… were once engaged in the paper manufacture, for which a mill had been fitted up with improved machinery. More than … of Fife; containing, with the villages of Balcurvie, Haugh-Mill, Burns, and Windygates, 1408 inhabitants, of whom 592 … is carried on to a moderate extent, and there are a mill for fulling cloth, a saw-mill, and a corn-mill; many of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the Idle river, and derives its name from an ancient mill which long since disappeared. Milton MILTON, a chapelry, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… bearing, on one side a 'W' with crozier, on the other a mill and a tun, the rebus of Abbot William. Above the arch is … cottages appear on Woodward's map of 176971. (15) Milton Mill (80500087), house, m. S. of (2), is of two storeys with … windows are of cast iron with small rectangular panes. Mill Cottages, 100 yds. to the S.E., do not appear on the map …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in agriculture and many women probably worked at the silk mill in Evercreech which continued to provide employment … shops nor services in the village. 5 Mills. There was a mill in 1086 6 and in 1225. 7 In 1574 there were two mills, … or Gullofers mills, but one had decayed by 1610. 8 The mill belonged to the manor and in 1630 the lord agreed to …