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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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