Monument record 0288800000 - GUNPOWDER MILL, BOURNE END

Summary

Eighteenth to nineteenth century gunpowder and paper mills, solely making paper from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.

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Type and Period (3)

(Former Type) GUNPOWDER WORKS (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD? to 1850 AD?)
PAPER MILL (18th Century to Modern - 1700 AD? to 1999 AD?)
(Alternate Type) WATERMILL (18th Century to Modern - 1700 AD? to 1999 AD?)

Description

1705, EMMANUEL WRIGHT OCCUPIED GUNPOWDER MILL; 1729, FRANCIS RANCE'S PAPER MILL (B1).
LEASE OF JUNE 1740 REFERS TO POWDER MILL HOUSE, WOOBURN (B2).
MARKED ON MAPS AT NGR. JEFFREYS' 1788 SHOWS A WATERMILL. BRYANT'S 1825 MAP SHOWS 'HIGHAMS GREEN & MILL'. OS 1ST EDITION 6-INCH MAP SHOWS 'GUNPOWDER MILL (PAPER)' (B3).
GUNPOWDER MILL, ALSO KNOWN AS EGGAM'S GREEN, OR JACKSON'S LOWER MILL, WAS A COMPLEX OF MILLS. BEFORE MID C19 MILL CONVERTED FROM MAKING GUNPOWDER TO A PAPER MILL. MESSRS JOHN H JACKSON ACQUIRED THE MILLS C.1870 FROM THE PEGG FAMILY BY MARRIAGE. NOW [1946] STEAM TURBINE OPERATED AND VERY EXTENSIVE (B4).
WORKED FROM 1763 ONWARDS. MILL STILL WORKED BY JACKSON'S MILL BOARD & FIBRE CO LTD (B6).
Detailed historical notes and 1930s condition. Power driven factory in 2006 (B7)

Sources (7)

<1>SBC9327 Verbal communication: MR L J MAYES.
<2>SBC2082 Bibliographic reference: 1941. BUCKS RECORD SOC 5 1941 P98 (CALENDAR OF DEEDS...(REF 398/22 NO28).
<3>SBC6720 Map: JEFFERYS T 1788 MAP OF BUCKS/ BRYANT A 1825 MAP OF BUCKS/ OS 1875/83 6 INCH MAP(1ST EDIT).
<4>SBC13857 Unpublished document: Stanley Freese. 1946. Manuscript notes on Bucks Windmills and Watermills.
<5>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. p107.
<6>SBC14545 Article in serial: A H Shorter. 1960. 'PAPER MILLS IN THE WYE VALLEY', IN PAPERMAKER & BRITISH PAPER TRADE JOURNAL, OCT, P55.
<7>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. p162.

Location

Grid reference	SU 8978 8717 (point)
Civil Parish	WOOBURN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jun 9 2022 10:34PM