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Survey of English Place-Names

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Mill Race, Lower Mill & Upper Mill

Other OS name in the Parish of Sydling St Nicholas

Etymology

, 1839TA , cf. molendinu ' de Sydelyng , Joh ' Wroth molend ' … tenet … iij cotag ' et ij molendini aquatica , ( land ) Atte Mulethorne 1321MiltC , Ralph atte Mulle 1332 SR , Milethorn 1384Winch , Mill Cl , (Lower ) Mill Md (w ), Mill Pond 1839TA , v. myln , þorn , atte ; there is mention of 2 mills at the largest of the Sydling manors , that held by Milton Abbey , in 1086 DB (VCHDo 377) .