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  • ...hire Ring. There are wide beam and narrowbeam locks; there is idyllic open rolling countryside, and the grimness of industry, some of it removed, some of it i ...6, and has continued to use the same processes ever since. There is also a mill which was built to Richard Arkwright's pattern in 1791, and is one of the b
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  • The village occupies a generally flat area among gently rolling hills in [[Leicestershire]]. The [[Grand Union Canal]] traverses the easter Additionally a short distance to the east of the village is the Mill Field Wood, planted in the year 2000 as a millennium project: the location
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  • ...number of houses it became fixed in a cottage on the corner of what is now Mill Lane and the A337. ...Heritage line and its self-contained nature permitted the use of slam-door rolling stock, until this was discontinued in 2010. In 1967 it was the last standar
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  • The village stands amidst gentle rolling countryside between [[Rubers Law]] and the [[Minto]] Hills, volcanic outcro ...anding, and many new houses have been built in the past few years. Denholm Mill and Denholm Hall Farm have both been developed for housing, leaving the cen
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  • ...his industrial expertise to Tottington, building Tottington Mill, Kirklees Mill and Leemings Hill Bleach Works; greatly contributing to the prosperity and ...Above</ref> Tottington Mill printworks was the subject of the 1921 sketch "Mill Yard, Tottington" by LS Lowry.<ref>[http://www.bury.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ash
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  • ...Arlington, Bibury side.<ref>{{NHLE|1003357|Site of Roman Villa near Bibury Mill}}</ref> ...Mill in Bibury - geograph.org.uk - 1440332.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Arlington Mill in Bibury]]
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  • ...works nearby a disused cornmill. The Lower Forge became in its turn a Corn Mill. Existing also in Lydbrook around the 1690s was an Anvil making works. ...the First World War and ceased operating in 1925. The early tin works and rolling mills stood where Meredith & Sons and Lydwood works are today.
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  • ...of the river between the main (A4094) Maidenhead to Cookham road and [[Ray Mill Island]]. The name is also used for the immediate surrounding area. The weir is some way upstream of the lock, at the northern end of Ray Mill Island. It is one of the most popular whitewater freestyle kayaking areas o
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  • ...adworks is known to have also included pipe-drawing machines and a rolling mill for producing lead sheet.<ref name=bhist />
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  • ...mallholders and 19 freemen, with 4 ploughlands, 15 acres of meadow and one mill. In 1066 Godwin of Barrowby was Lord of the Manor, transferring in 1086 to ...Great Northern Railway Woolsthorpe branch line in 1883, on which Stanton's rolling stock took the ironstone to the main Grantham to [[Nottingham]] line. Later
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  • The [[rolling mill]] installed at the Birchley Works in [[Oldbury, Worcestershire|Oldbury]] in ...er also came from Prestons. The building was saved from Johnson's Rolling Mill site in [[West Bromwich]].<ref>http://www.bclm.co.uk/locations/anchor-forge
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  • ...nufacture of paper for banknotes, starting in the 18th century. [[Overton Mill]] is still produces sterling banknotes for the Bank of England and banknote ...as first recorded in 1442. <ref name=1000h/> In this period a new fulling mill was built and there was a large increase in population.<ref name=vch/> It w
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  • |name=Sarehole Mill |picture=Sarehole Mill.jpg
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  • ...l, Wrockwardine Wood - geograph.org.uk - 1146203.jpg|thumb|250px|Bullock's Mill, built beside the canal in 1818, has now been converted into apartments. Th ...ccessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> The business closed in the 1970s and the mill has since been converted into apartments.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cms.sn
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  • ...m or brook called Windle Brook (the boundary with Windle civil parish) and Mill Brook. There is a mere called Eccleston Mere and three dams used for coolin ...eston is a suburban area with a limited number of shops at Walmesley Road, Mill Brook Lane and Gillars Green Drive. These are mainly local shops including
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  • ...which also carried water from the Clydach to the Clydach Ironworks Rolling Mill via a leat.<ref>http://www.ggat.org.uk/cadw/historic_landscape/clydach_gorg
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  • ...and Denis raised their then young children, Mark and Carol. Others include Rolling Stone, Bill Wyman, Arsenal and England footballer, Kenny Sansom, founder of [[File:Keston mill.jpg|thumb|250px|Keston Windmill]]
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  • ...tionalisation, one of the surviving two locomotives and all but the newest rolling stock were scrapped. Ex South Eastern and Chatham Railway birdcage carriage ...ing day apart from a short stretch at Robertsbridge serving Hodson's Flour Mill, which became a private siding.{{sfn|Garrett|1980|p=21}} This final section
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  • ...e the steel. Roundwood, the 11" mill as it is known because of the maximum rolling size, also remains open, both plants with a reduced workforce.
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  • ...Enfield Lock|Enfield]] and Wright's Flour Mill (the last surviving working mill in the metropolis) at [[Ponders End]]. Further south at [[Bow]] is the Thre ...and West Ham led to expansion of industries including for example Enfield Rolling Mills and Enfield Cables, Thorn Electrical Industries, Belling, Glover and
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  • [[File:The B6403 Rolling road - geograph.org.uk - 1339545.jpg|right|thumb|160px|North of Ancaster]] ...94564}}, and continues past [[Navenby]] and [[Boothby Graffoe]] to Coleby Mill ({{map|SK989600}}. It is maintained, on a variety of road types, across Co
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  • ...a new mill at Mill Corner, approximately 700 yards to the east. The second mill burned down after 6 years in service in October 1833; its replacement on th ...re|Dunston]] and sugar beet to a factory at [[Bardney]]. The light railway rolling stock and track were originally used to move munitions and troops to the fr
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  • ...al history, having had very little woodland for many centuries, and gently rolling cereal fields and pasture instead. ...ent tea rooms, but when the tea rooms closed in 2005, so did access to the mill. In August 2009, work began to turn the tea rooms and adjacent property int
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  • ...chaeology has disappeared but remnants still exist in the area. Kilmainham mill still exists and much of the machinery is still in place. Although derelict Inchicore Railway Works is the headquarters for mechanical engineering and rolling stock maintenance for Iarnród Éireann. Established in 1844 by the Great S
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  • ...face. The tracks were part of a network of sidings which served the Holmes Rolling Mills on the north bank of the navigation, and the bridge provided access t ...:Mexborough - former BBCS Bakery.jpg|thumb|top|right|Mexborough BBCS Flour Mill]]
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  • ...d a slitting and rolling mill, occupying both sides the river. Some of the mill buildings are now the Riverside Garden Centre. ...rship with him when he built the mill at [[Cromford]]. Part of the Milford mill still exists as well as much of the workers' housing. (One of Strutt's appr
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  • ...d a slitting and rolling mill, occupying both sides the river. Some of the mill buildings are now the Riverside Garden Centre.
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  • |No. 3 "Clyde's mill". ...preserved lines in Britain, diesel shunters are predominantly used to move rolling stock and locomotives around the yard at Bo'ness.
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  • ...ort of Fontley Iron Mills, adjacent. Cort was the inventor of the rolling mill and the puddling furnace, important for the production of iron during the N ...puddled iron'' (Metals Society, London 1983); Malcolm Low, ''Funtley Iron Mill - Henry Cort'' - copies available in reference sections of publication can
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  • ...notes that in the time of Edward the Confessor (1042–1066), there was a mill in operation at Liss paying an annual rent. ...r the last 1½ miles of line from Liss Forest Road to Liss. Three items of rolling stock (a van, a brake van, and a bogie flat) still remain on the Longmoor s
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  • Grade II*: Mill House, Bridge Street – [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/l ...ing-valley-farmlands.aspx |title= Suffolk Landscape Character Typology – Rolling valley farmlands |access-date=27 February 2011}}</ref>
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  • ...olden Lane. In earlier times the 1611 Manorial Map shows that there was a mill site between Lawshall Hall and Harrow Green to the south of the road. ...ling-farmlands.aspx |title= Suffolk Landscape Character Typology - Ancient Rolling Farmlands |accessdate=2012-01-12}}</ref>
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  • ...ast of the city centre of Canterbury on the edge of the [[North Downs]] in rolling hilly countryside that is designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The tower of a [[Reed Mill, Kingston|windmill]] stands some distance from the village.
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  • ...ars and plums.<ref name="ross" /> Moreton was also the site of a gunpowder mill in the 18th century.<ref name=body>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com ...of red siltstone resulting in the underlying characteristic of the gently rolling valley landscape. Bands of sandstone from the Triassic period contribute to
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  • ..., Wire Mill Dam.JPG|left|thumb|170px|The Thomas Boulsover memorial at Wire Mill Dam]] ...he Fulwood area in the 1760s when he constructed the Whiteley Wood rolling mill for the manufacture of saws and edge tools, Boulsover lived in the nearby [
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