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Mill Cottage & Mill Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of West Kirby

Etymology

, named from a windmill on Irbymill Hill 265supra , cf. Windmill 1847, 1849TA 181, 393 and Mylway Pikes , Mylway Such 1639Sheaf , v. myln , weg , pīc 1 , sīc , cf . The Pikes infra . The cottage is in part of Irby township 264supra in 1831 Bry .