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A History of the County of Surrey
… in neighbouring parishes, a little brick-making, water-mills (corn) at Pixham Mill, and timber and saw-mills. Poultry rearing is an ancient pursuit of the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… of Salford Priors, co. Warwick, Elizabeth wife of William Mills of Mickleton and Welford, co. Gloucester, and Eleanor …
Magna Britannia
… by the late Jedidiah Strutt, Esq. There are now four great mills 43 belonging to this family at Belper; which till …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was recorded from the late 16th century. There were two mills there in 1591, one new-built. 424 In 1620 the lord of … Dowdeswell manor William Rogers granted a lease of the two mills for six years to the owners of Upper Dowdeswell, … and Upper House. 425 There were evidently still two mills at the site in 1649 when the lower mill was mentioned. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… a. until 1885 when a detached portion 1 mile west at Bere Mills Farm was absorbed into Knowle St. Giles, leaving a … at the junction of the main street with a road to Dowlish mills and beyond; and beside it stood the dower house and a … estate, known as Dowlish farm, was then 295 a., Bere Mills farm was 125 a., and Levi Wallbridge held 75 a. based …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… between them. The diversion of the Avon to drive the mills at Old Court 47 left a rectangular island and … end. 60 Trade and industry were concentrated around the mills and later the tannery, and housing in High Street and … over the two still prominent mill-streams where the mills and the large tannery stand opposite each other. High …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a water mill could be used only in winter. 159 Three water mills formed part of Draycot Cerne manor in 1344, 160 and a …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… in Drayton, 7 and from 1652 to 1823 there were three water-mills here. 8 The present mill is a mile south-east of the … and Drayton. 49 In 1546 the king granted the manor, mills, rectory, and advowson of the vicarage to Sir Anthony … 407. Dugdale, Mon. i, 527. The watermills called Hemwarde Mills in Hemwarde and Drayton are mentioned in 1546 ( L. and …