Record Details
| NHER Number: | 9419 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | 19th century watermill |
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Summary
This 19th century mill is reported as working between 1858 and 1899 when it produced paper for 'The Times' newspaper. An earlier mill on the same site is marked on Faden's map of 1797.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1542 0878 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG10NE |
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| Parish: | BAWBURGH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
13 October 1976. Visit.
Watermill.
19th century brick with four gables in facade above large water arches. Mill house to north with weatherboarded gable.
E. Rose (NAU)
Built 1887. Provided paper for 'The Times' - Bolingbroke Collection, NCM.
A previous mill on the site is marked on (S1).
E. Rose (NAU).
(S2) gives papermill as functioning c.1858-1899.
E. Rose (NAU)
Monument Types
- PAPER MILL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WATERMILL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WATERMILL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1980-1994. [Photographs of Bawburgh Mill]. |
| --- | Article in Serial: Stoker, D. 1976. The Early History of Paper-making in Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXVI Pt III pp 241-252. p 251. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797. |
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