Monument record 0126300000 - MILL HOUSE, MARSWORTH

Summary

Site of watermill from Domesday to the nineteenth century when windmill and steam mill took over

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Type and Period (3)

  • STEAM MILL (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • WINDMILL (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • WATERMILL (11th Century to 19th Century - 1000 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

WATERMILL, WINDMILL, & STEAM MILL ONCE STOOD ON THIS SITE. THERE ARE PROBLEMS WITH THE IDENTITY & NATURE OF 'DYER'S MILL' (COMPARE BI6 WITH BI2 & 3). ALSO, BI8 SAYS THE STEAM MILL 'ASSISTED' THE WINDMILL; BI9 SAYSTHE FORMER 'TOOK OVER' FROM THE LATTER POST 1844(JPP). NGR TO CORNMILL, OS1877/84(BI5)
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Sources (11)

  • <1>SBC4271 Bibliographic reference: John Morris (ed). 1978. Domesday Book: Buckinghamshire.
  • <2>SBC6744 Map: JEFFREYS T 1788 MAP OF BUCKS.
  • <3>SBC12397 Bibliographic reference: POSSE COMITATUS 1798 (MS AT BRO, REF L/P/15&16.
  • <4>SBC10585 Map: OS MAP 1814 2IN DRAFT/BRYANT A 1825 MAP OF BUCKS.
  • <5>SBC10587 Map: OS MAP 1877/84 6IN (1:10560) 1ST EDN.
  • <6>SBC15555 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 3 P395.
  • <7>SBC14967 Bibliographic reference: SUNLIFE INSURANCE CO (PER AH SHORTER; PAPER MILLS & PAPER MAKERS IN ENGLAND 1495-1800).
  • <8>SBC9580 Unpublished document: MS NOTES OF S FREESE 1946.
  • <9>SBC4353 Verbal communication: DR GE CREE, PERS COMM TO AR P ON THE LATTER'S FIELD VISIT, OCT 1983.
  • <10>SBC5194 Bibliographic reference: FARNELL M 1982 ACCOUNT BOOKS OF WILLIAM COOPER, MI LLWRIGHT OF AYLESBURY, IN RECSOFBUCKS"24PP118-124.
  • <11>SBC23045 Bibliographic reference: Michael Farley, Edward Legg and James Venn (eds). 2007. The Watermills of Buckinghamshire: A 1930s account by Stanley Freese with original photographs. pp.105-106.

Location

Grid reference SP 91580 14370 (point)
Civil Parish MARSWORTH, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: (EBC13507)

Record last edited

Jul 8 2008 2:19PM

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