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Listed are here are some of the many
examples of
historic milldams and
millponds (or
place names taken from them).
Bramley Millpond in Bramley...
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Milldam Barracks is a
former a
military installation at Portsmouth, Hampshire. The
complex includes two
Grade II
listed buildings.
Milldam here refers...
- man-made floods,
known as pond freshets,
created by
successively breaking milldams along the
length of the river.
These freshets could carry up to 800 skiffs...
- spun by Habetrot,
bleached by an
honest bleacher in an
honest miller's
milldam and
sewed by an
honest tailor.
Notes on the folk-lore of the
northern counties...
- Brook, with a dam, pond and mill
being built the
following year at the
Milldam. A road (part of Concord's Main
Street today) was
built across the dam...
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Other theories include that it
comes from the
Swedish word damber,
meaning milldam;
another is that it
comes from the
ancient Scandinavian words þambr ("fat-bellied")...
- (the
surviving 18th-century
Gatcombe House served as the Officers' Mess).
Milldam Barracks (Royal Engineers) –
built late 18th
century onwards,
housed the...
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Mills and
Stevens Mills) on the river. In the 18th and 19th centuries,
milldams were
built along the
brook to
power lumber- and gristmills,
creating Stevens...
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Boston and
Roxbury Mill
Corporation was
chartered to
construct a
milldam,
which would also
serve as a toll road
connecting Boston to Watertown,...
-
because of the
flocks of
geese attracted to the
still water behind Lenni milldam. The name had been
transferred to the town by 1884.
Forge Hill was added...
