Lt Walsingham
Mill River Stiffkey |
23rd March
2003
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Little Walsingham
Mill originally belonged to the Priory but it was demolished around the
early 1900s. |
Mill
wall forming part of the road bridge 23rd March 2003
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Much of the stone to build the priory was brought in from Northamptonshire on flat bottomed barges towed up the River Stiffkey, which was navigable to Brooker's Dock on the opposite side of the priory to the mill. |
Bishop Warner,
who owned the mill in the 1600s did not have an heir and left the estate
to his nephew (? Lee) on the understanding that the Warner name was retained.
Thus the new family name became Lee Warner. |
Bricked
in old door in the centre and a former window to the left 23rd March 2003
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O. S. Map 1904 |
The mill stood next to the road just below the point marked Weir, which was the area of the mill dam. |
O.S. Map 2005 Image reproduced under licence from Ordnance Survey |
1642: Owned
by Bishop Warner of Rochester |
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Nat Grid Ref TF93453654 | Copyright © Jonathan Neville 2003 |