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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… an original window with moulded mullions and now blocked. Mill Lane, E. side: d(36). Range of five tenements, 1,100 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… pendants and fascia. d(10). Cottage S. of Witherslack Mill and 1 m. E. of the church, has a chimney-stack with a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 400 hands, and having a power of 60 horses. A paper-mill, built on the canal in 1843, employs 60 persons. A … The springs which rise in the parsonage-grounds turn a mill at a distance of 300 yards, and never vary in the driest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… year. Probably they stood near the sites of Waleys or Farm Mill near the 12th-century manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at what may both have been … Windrush. 1 Outlying mills at Hailey (near modern New Mill) and at Crawley were added probably in the late 12th or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with Courtaulds Ltd. Before 1967 the outlying sites at New Mill, Worsham, and West End were sold to allow further … the following year, 16 while James Walker and Sons' Crofts Mill, on short time in 1980, closed soon after. 17 Early's … and vacated Mount Mills in 1985, leaving only its Witney Mill premises. 18 Despite further small-scale diversification …
A History of the County of Oxford
… expanding in the 1580s when Thomas Box built a new fulling mill in Hailey. 27 Other leading fullers or clothiers … Peter Rankell owned Underdown (otherwise Beard or Berry) Mill in Standlake in 1595, and in 1600 the Bishops owned Cassington Mill, both of which were possibly adapted for fulling. 28 In …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rents from fulling and corn mills at Waleys (now Farm) Mill just south of the borough, at Woodford (now Witney) Mill to its north, and from a third fulling mill near the site of the later New Mill in Hailey. 56 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… water-powered spinning was introduced by tenants of New Mill: Edmund Wright, killed in an accident at the mill about 1808, acquired some notoriety among local … 12 Spinning machinery may have been introduced to Crawley Mill soon after, 13 and in the mid 19th century there was a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (at Mount Mills) by an oil engine, and from 1934 Witney Mill was powered by electricity supplied from a … Pritchett and Webley, Marriott & Sons acquired Worsham Mill in Asthall, developing it as a willeying, spinning, and … with a genuine sense of community, despite strikes at New Mill in 1919, and at Smith and Philips' Bridge Street and …