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Corn Mill

Other OS name in the Parish of Cranborne

Historical Forms

  • Higher Holwell Mill 1811 OS

Etymology

, Higher Holwell Mill 1811OS , cf. Upr Mill Grd , Mill Plot & Mill Pond 1846TA , Holwell Millinfra ; there were four mills in Cranborne , as well as one at Boveridge , in 1086 DB (VCHDo 367, 74) , and mills in Cranborne are also mentioned in 1236 FF , 1268Ass , 1280 Ch ( ' the mill in Craneburne which Edmer held ' ) , and 1285Cecil ( with repairs to a flodgat ' ' a floodgate ' ) , cf. the f.n. Mill Downsinfra .