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• Hertfordshire
  Away from the towns, the county is marked by low rolling hills, rising in the north and in the west where the [[Chiltern Hills]] swe ** [[Mill Green Watermill]] in Hatfield
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• Somerset
  Somerset is a rural county of rolling hills such as the [[Mendip Hills]], [[Quantock Hills]] and [[Exmoor]]. In *{{i-NTE}} [[Stembridge Tower Mill]] (the last remaining thatched windmill in Britain)
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• Acton, Middlesex
  ...nt is shown by finds of Palaeolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age burials at Mill Hill Park, and Iron Age coins near Bollo Lane. In the Middle Ages the north ...included: Heathfield Lodge, West Lodge, and East Lodge by Winter c. 1800, Mill Hill House by White, and Woodlands at Acton Hill soon afterwards. Acton Gre
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• West Drayton
  * Ronnie Wood, guitarist in rock bands the Rolling Stones and The Faces, was born in West Drayton ...isher Sir Allen Lane, most famously known for Penguin Books. Lived at The Mill House, West Drayton.
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• Derby
  [[File:Silkmill1.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Derby Industrial Museum - Silk Mill World Heritage Site]] ...al Revolution. In 1717, Derby was the site of the first water powered silk mill in Britain, built by John Lombe and George Sorocold, after Lombe had repute
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• Chelmsford
  ...v.uk/index.cfm?articleid=6790 |title=Chelmsford Borough Council - Sandford Mill: Science for Schools and Industrial Heritage |publisher=Chelmsford.gov.uk |
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• Merthyr Tydfil
  ...,300 people, and by 1857 had constructed the world's most powerful rolling mill. The companies were mainly owned by two dynasties, the Guest and Crawshay ...creatures broiling, all in sweat and dirt, amid their furnaces, pits, and rolling mills."<ref>James Anthony Froude, ''Thomas Carlyle: A History of his Life i
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• Elstead
  Surrounding the village is rolling green countryside beyond which nearby are found [[Gatwick village]], [[Putt Elstead Mill, now a pub and restaurant, was occupied by Oliver Cromwell’s ‘roundhead
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• Merton, Surrey
  ...d provided water for a number of industrial processes. In the 1660s a silk mill was in operation at Merton Abbey and the Jacob family was operating a fabri ...he junction of Bygrove Road and Wandle Bank and there was a copper rolling mill on Merton High Street where later the Merton Board Mills would be built. Th
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• Dolgarrog
  ...al farmers. There was also a woolen mill at Dolgarrog bridge and the Abbey mill. The successful Porthlwyd mill was expanded by John Lloyd, son of founder Richard Lloyd. As well as grindi
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• River Wey
  ...ttle cake, leather dressing, papermaking and gunpowder manufacture. Willey Mill was still in use in 1953.<ref>{{cite web | title=All About Watermills & The ===Guildford Town Mill===
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• River Hull
  ...ads which they carry, and three Scherzer lift bridges, which are a type of rolling bascule bridge. Scott Street Bridge, which is now permanently raised, was o ...their carpets in the downstream direction. The factory later became a corn mill.<ref>{{harvnb |Hadfield |1972 |pp=88–89}}</ref>
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• Ripley, Derbyshire
  ...Centre) a railway preservation trust, dedicated to preserving locomotives, rolling stock and other items related to the Midland Railway. ...village green with a few dwellings further afield. Corn was ground at the mill owned by the Abbot of Darley and in 1291 there were "two water-mills with f
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• Middlesbrough
  ...ghan, originally of [[Worcester]], and started an iron foundry and rolling mill, in a street they name Vulcan Street. It was Vaughan who realised the econo ...f No. 122 Squadron, piloted by Sgt Hutton, crashed into rising ground near Mill Farm, Upsall, on the lower slopes of Eston Hills. Visibility had been poor
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• Rogerstone
  ...oalfield. At one point, the village boasted the longest aluminium rolling mill in Western Europe and one of the largest marshalling yards on the Great Wes
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• River Darent
  [[File:Westerham 1912.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Westerham Mill, 1912]] [[File:Brasted 1906.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Brasted Mill, 1909]]
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• Rye
  [[File:Rye mill.jpg|right|thumb|170px|Gibbet Mill]] ...English drunkard made the rolling English road.<ref>G K Chesterton; ''The Rolling English Road''</ref></poem></blockquote>
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• Sheppey
  ...h Eastern and Chatham Railway replaced the first bridge with one having a "rolling lift" design. It was originally worked by hand, but later by electricity. ...first owners, the De Shurland family. In 1188 Adam de Shurland possessed a mill with more than 1,000 acres of mixed land, mostly marsh with a small meadow:
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• Sutton Coldfield
  ...around Sutton Coldfield; evidence of Bronze Age burnt mounds near Langley Mill Farm, at Langley Brook and of a Bronze Age burial mound. An Iron Age settle ...lease of 30 years to Thomas Ingram at the pool.<ref name="Salzman" /> The mill at Blackroot Pool was originally used for leather dressing, although later
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• Doncaster
  ...d mills have gone and Doncaster has suffered a decline familiar to the old mill towns, but is reinventing itself as many Yorkshire towns have had to do. I Steel foundries, rolling mills and wire mills were built close to the railways that brought steel fr
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• Rotherham
  ...er |publisher=Bakeryinfo.co.uk |date=11 July 2008 }}</ref> The site of the mill is a warehousing and distribution facility for Premier Foods. ...The smaller (CNS) site based close to the old Templeborough Melting Shop & Rolling Mills site produces hot rolled narrow strip to high tolerances for the aero
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• Pencoed
  ...of the town, lies the upland relief of the Valleys. To the south lies the rolling countryside of the Vale of Glamorgan and the rugged north coast of the [[Br ...ey floor east of the railway, consists of Pencoed itself and ''Felindre'' (Mill Town). There are numerous streams rising and running through the town and t
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• Queenborough
  ..., and a steel rolling mill are among the more recent developments, but the mill has suffered greatly as a result of the restrictions in place by the Americ
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• Stalybridge
  With the construction of a cotton mill in 1776, Stalybridge became one of the first centres of textile manufacture ...spinning cotton was built at Rassbottom. In 1789 the town's first spinning mill using the principle of Arkwright's Water Frame was built. By 1793 steam pow
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• Lochmaben
  ...23. The town is well found with a broad main street and the town is set in rolling countryside. The railway came in 1863, with Lochmaben a stop on the Dumfrie ...f the town. Lochmaben has three main lochs: Kirk Loch, Castle Loch and the Mill Loch.It also has two smaller lochs: The Blind Loch and the Upper Loch. The
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• Penkridge
  [[File:River Penk and Roller Mill from Bull Bridge Penkridge.jpg|left|thumb|The River Penk from Bull Bridge]] ...e:Penkridge Roller Mill 01.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Roller Mill, used for rolling iron in the early 19th century]]
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• Monarch's Way
  ...bbal Grange the route turns west by way of [[Tong, Shropshire]] to Evelith Mill and [[Kemberton]]. Reaching [[Madeley, Shropshire|Madeley]] it became appar Amongst the rolling Cotswold Hills, the route passes through some of its finest towns; [[Moreto
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• Stocksbridge
  ...fferent products, so that by the mid-1860s the works included furnaces and rolling mills allowing production of railway lines and springs. The business was tr ...ling mill (billet mill) was re-opened in April 2006 due to difficulties in rolling certain products at Aldwarke and it is likely to stay open for the immediat
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• Talyllyn Railway
  ...servation, the railway has operated as a tourist attraction, expanding its rolling stock through acquisition and an engineering programme to build new locomot ...shire cotton famine caused by the American Civil War from 1861 brought the mill owner William McConnel to look for alternative opportunities; in 1859 he bo
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• Nene Valley Railway
  ...f the Nene, linked by footpaths across the river to [[Nassington]] and the mill village of [[Yarwell]]. The mile from track from here to Wansford runs thr ...City Centre. Railworld is next door to the station with a wide variety of rolling stock on display.
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• Peak District
  ...ology is mainly limestone-based. These parts are different; the southern, rolling Derbyshire Dales are green and richly grazed in the south, the hills beginn |[[Mill Hill (Derbyshire)|Mill Hill]]
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• Staffordshire Moorlands
  The terrain is mostly moorland with forests and lakes stretching out across rolling hills and crags. Some of the higher moorland has been largely abandoned for ...[[Dovedale]], the [[Manifold Valley]] including [[Thor's Cave]], [[Wetton Mill]], [[Longnor]] and [[Butterton]].
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• Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
  ...at [[Keighley]] to [[Oxenhope]], which was warmly received by a number of mill owners and other influential people in the area as well as the Midland Rail ...e rival railway company, the Great Northern. Upon sale of the railway, the mill owners made a profit, which was unusual for many lines of that type, as (fo
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• South Tynedale Railway
  ...se. The level crossing barriers and mechanism came from the now-closed How Mill station on the Newcastle and Carlisle line. ==Passenger rolling stock==
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• Downpatrick & County Down Railway
  ...volunteers permitted, to extend the railway to reach an 18th-century corn mill to the south near Ballydugan. An extension north to [[Comber]] or all the ==Rolling Stock==
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• Kilham, Northumberland
  ...ed of Devonian igneous rocks, and the landscape is characterised by smooth rolling hills and extensive plateaux of semi-natural acidic grass moor, known local ...laid out around a square courtyard. Hemp and flax were grown, and a small mill is shown on maps from the 1860s onwards.<ref name="village atlas"/>
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• Corris Railway
  ...elivered in 2005. The two surviving locomotives, plus some of the original rolling stock, are preserved on the nearby [[Talyllyn Railway]]. ...tle=Narrow Gauge Railways in Profile No. 1: Talyllyn Railway Locomotives & Rolling Stock|last1=Bate|first1=John|last2=Mitchell|first2=David|last3=Adams|first3
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• Bredbury
  ...oducts were added from time to time, including cotters for locomotives and rolling stock, engineer's keys, taper pins, grooved fastenings for securing all kin Pear New Mill was owned by Combined English Mills and were spinners of superfine white ho
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• Shropshire Canal
  ...ere on the east bank, with the Jerry Furnaces, where there was a forge and rolling mills, on the west. The Bishtons owned Langley Furnaces, which were some {{ ...cility served by a tramway. There was a cement mill to the east and a corn mill to the west, before the canal reached Shawfield Colliery on the east bank.
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• Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
  ...garth amongst the fells. Intermediate stations and halts are at Muncaster Mill, Miteside, Murthwaite Halt, Irton Road, The Green, Fisherground Halt and Be ...re operated using the Bassett-Lowke-built, to-scale 4-4-2 ''Sans Pareil''. Rolling stock was augmented by Sir Arthur Heywood's Duffield Bank line, following S
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• Yorkshire Wolds
  Most of the area takes the form of an elevated, gently rolling plateau, cut by numerous deep, steep-sided, flat-bottomed valleys of glacia At [[Nafferton]], just off the A166, is a pretty mill pond fed by springs. Close to [[Ruston Parva]] is Danes Graves, an archaeol
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• Symonds Yat
  ...the works included a 'slitting mill', for making wire nails and a rolling mill powered by water wheels.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk
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• Gwili Railway
  ...ures at Bronwydd Arms station and amassing a collection of locomotives and rolling stock. ...te of the first terminus of the newly opened Gwili Railway next to the old mill at [[Cwmdwyfran]]. From here, the line continues climbing until it passes u
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• Allendale
  ...nmillregeneration.co.uk/|title=The Mill - Allen Mill|work=The Mill - Allen Mill}}</ref> ...have been easier to carry the barrels upon the guisers' heads, rather than rolling them. There have been claims that it is a pagan festival, however, these cl
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• Ramsbottom
  ...–150}}</ref> Mills were built for spinning, weaving and printing. Square Mill was in its day innovative in combining many such processes under one roof. ...isation in the area, contributing to it becoming an important and populous mill town.
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• Pontymister
  ...Isaf'', the village came about as a need for housing for the local steel mill and chemical works workforces. Most houses were built in 1920 - 1925. Many local pubs still bear the names of steel making; the Rolling Mill, the Forge and Hammer, etc. Although the Forge hammer became an Indian rest
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• Loxley, Yorkshire
  ...Rolling Mill all becoming established industries by the river. Many of the mill ponds associated with these mills are still present on the river and provid ...rvant Alathea Hague and apprentice John Bower. The trip hammer and rolling mill works owned by the Chapmans was completely destroyed. Most of the industria
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• River Loxley
  ...forges and cutlers' wheels to be powered by its waters. Low Bradfield Corn Mill is the earliest known installation, being recorded in documents from 1219. ...e are still water wheels at Malin Bridge corn mill and Low Matlock rolling mill.<ref name=bcf/>
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• Eckington, Derbyshire
  ...itwell made saws at Pleasley and in 1656, installed a rolling and slitting mill at Renishaw to supply the rod iron used by numerous local nailmakers.<ref n
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• Clowne
  ...agriculture, or mined the shallow coal seams. Others were employed at the mill, which made candle-wick, sacking and sail-cloth.<ref name="C Notes"/> ...to the [[M1 motorway]] at nearby Barlborough. The village is surrounded by rolling farmland, mostly arable.<ref>Buckley (1977), p. 1.</ref> The area of Clowne
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