Tocketts; The story of a North Yorkshire township and its mill

£10.00

A4 card cover plus 72pp. Many illustrations and maps in b/w

A history of Tocketts Mill and its owners broadened to include the township of the same name. With short accounts of the other mills in the Skelton Beck valley, particularly the West Mill and Howl Beck Mill in Guisborough and the mill at Swathey Head in Tocketts

Links between Tocketts Mill and the Augustinian Priory at Guisborough are discussed along with later developments at the mill in the context of alum quarrying and ironstone mining in the nineteenth century.

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  • Author(s): Harrison, John K; Morgan, P W
  • Publisher: The Mills Archive Trust
  • Publication year: 2016