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A History of the County of York North Riding
… is not mentioned in any records of the place. A water-mill in Cundall appears in the 16th and 17th centuries as an … licence to establish a fishery in the river between the mill of Fawdington and the 'water called Lowysbek,' 4 which … East. 39 Eliz.; Mich. 17 Jas. I. Perhaps the same as the mill of Fawdington, in the possession of the Deyvills in 1235 …
A History of the County of Warwick
… east of the site of the old one. There is no mention of a mill at Curdworth in Domesday Book, and no traces now survive of the mill which was in existence there in the Middle Ages. 6 The … and services were discontinued. 12 Minworth possessed a mill in 1346, 13 and there was one at Berwood during the 15th …
Magna Britannia
… gave him the site of the hermitage, and the tilhe of his mill at Burgh (Burrowash) for his support. Serlo de Grendon, … the beginning of the eighteenth century, the first silk-mill that had been established in England, was constructed at … of Derbyshire, written in 1712. The machinery of this mill having been found inadequate to its intended purposes, …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… were held of Matthew de Louvayn 51 and included a water-mill worth 20 s. 52; they are described in the 14th century … settled on John Perth and Ellen his wife. 54 The water-mill appears later as an appurtenance of the manor held by …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… 24 and continued to descend with it. 25 The former silk-mill at Castleton no longer exists. 26 The head of the fee of …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… earl held in demesne the capital messuage, with a water-mill and windmill, an oven and a fish-pond, 13 while in 1305 … advowson of one-eighth of the church of Yafforth, of the mill of Yafforth, and of the pasture of the isle of the same … to do customary and foreign services and suit at William's mill there. 59 A William de Brettevill owed half a mark in …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… an half. There are 5 villeins, and 5 borderers, and one mill of 20 shillings. There are 3 acres of meadow, and 1 …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… powder-mills, first erected by Sir John Spilman as a paper mill, as before mentioned, situated a quarter of a mile above the town; there is a paper mill at a small distance below it, where there was one so … two corn mills, and farther below bridge the ruins of the mill, employed as a cotton manufactory, which was burned down …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… straightened probably in the 18th century either as a mill stream or for ornament, runs within the parish. West of … was chiefly arable, growing cereal and fodder crops. 157 A mill at Dauntsey and another at Smithcot were recorded in 1086. 158 A mill in the parish in 1487 and c. 1550 159 was presumably …