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Green plaque № 11857

Milnthorpe, Westmorland and Furness, England, United Kingdom

THE COMB MILL. Also called Milnthorpe Mill or the Bela Mill, lies 100 yards upstream from here. Milnthorpe's name, dating from c900AD, derives from the old English word 'Mylen' or the later Norse 'Mylna' and refers to a water mill near this site on the swiftest flowing reaches of the River Bela. The

mill was given in 1094 to St Mary's Abbey at York by Ivo de Taillebois. In 1460 William Booth, Archbishop of York, granted it to Heversham Church. Originally used for grinding corn, the mill later sp

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