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A History of the County of Surrey
… a little brick-making, water-mills (corn) at Pixham Mill, and timber and saw-mills. Poultry rearing is an ancient … Clare tenant, 69 sued Robert Basset for a third part of a mill and 40 acres of land as her dower in Hamsted and … which Westcote descended from that time. 101 There was a mill at Westcote at the time of the Domesday Survey; it is …
A History of the County of Worcester
… 1704, apparently leaving a son George, 57 who dealt with a mill in the manor in 1709. 58 This moiety of the manor passed … with the rest of the Westwood estate. There was a mill worth 4 s. at Doverdale in 1086. 63 It is not mentioned …
Magna Britannia
… rapidly about the year 1776, in which the first cotton-mill was erected by the late Jedidiah Strutt, Esq. There are …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… occupied by farmers from outside the parish. Dowdeswell mill, situated on the river Chelt at the west boundary of the … still two mills at the site in 1649 when the lower mill was mentioned. 426 Dowdeswell mill was included in the lands that were alienated from the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… acheveron gules between three leopards' head sable. The mill of Dowles was held under the Prior of Great Malvern in 1521 by William Southall of Bewdley. 49 A mill was held with the manor in 1587 50 and in 1813, 51 but there is no mill in the parish at the present day. CHURCH The church of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Speke family in the later 18th century. 12 Perry's cider mill has a smokeblackened cruck roof, but possesses no … use and of Dowlish mills to agricultural purposes as Mill farm. Dairy farming continues to predominate in the … and 'factory men' in 1857 and 1873. 77 Mills. A water-mill granted to Monkton Farleigh priory c. 1200 by Ralph Wake …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… surface. Walburn Hall, Downholme: The Kitchen Wing A water-mill belonged to the priory at the time of its dissolution, … brought from some neighbouring abbeyperhaps Easby. A water-mill belonged to the manor in 1618. 18 Various religious …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of which survive. The island was joined to High Street by Mill bridge. In the later 17th century a new carriage for … the island where the houses are mostly 19th-century. At Mill bridge the road bends sharply over the two still prominent mill-streams where the mills and the large tannery stand …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Langley Burrell, and Sutton Benger south-east to Avon Mill in Christian Malford, was diverted to run further east … to the designs of J. F. Bentley, was opened c. 1883. 42 A mill stood beside the Stanton St. Quintin road until the … after 1946, and little remained in 1987. 157 There was a mill at Draycot in 1086. 158 In 1296 a water mill could be …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… and Newbury road. In 1000 Drayton possessed a water-mill. 6 Abingdon Abbey before its dissolution received the … to 1823 there were three water-mills here. 8 The present mill is a mile south-east of the village, on Mill Brook. From 1793 to 1823 there were said to be five …