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Mill:

Beachampton Mill, Beachampton

A mill in the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England.

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A single mill stood in Beachampton at Domesday, and by 1285 there were two. At some stage, only one mill remained. Anthony Backhouse was the miller in 1798. He was possibly the last, as the mill disappeared a long time ago, though Mill Farm remains.

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Power source
Mill type Watermill
River Great Ouse
Mill function
Archive ID 11713
Location Beachampton
Historic county Buckinghamshire
Country England, United Kingdom
NGR SP 764 374
Latitude/longitude 52.03634703, -0.88318718

Location

References

  • Farley, Michael, County Museum Archaeological Group, "Buckinghamshire Watermills", (Records of Bucks, 24, 1982)
  • Farley, Michael, Edward Legg and James Venn (Ed), The Watermills of Buckinghamshire: A 1930s account by Stanley Freese with original photographs (Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, 2007)

 

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