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Mill:

Lane's Mill, High Wycombe

A water-powered paper mill in the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England.

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At Domesday six mills were recorded in High Wycombe. In later times, further mill sites were developed. Overall, eleven mill sites are known, ten mills surviving into the 20th century or late nineteenth century. Records show that John Lane had Lanes’s Mill in 1792, and in 1830 Joseph Lane had Ash Mill. The Lane family finally gave up paper-making at the mill in 1847. By the 1930s only the foundations remained.

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Alternative names Ash Mill
Power source Water
Mill type Watermill
River Wye
Mill function Paper mill
Archive ID 11741
Location High Wycombe
Historic county Buckinghamshire
Country England, United Kingdom
NGR SU 860 934
Latitude/longitude 51.63312205, -0.75960171

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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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