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'Fulling mills appear in Wales early in the reign of Edward II., just at the time when fulling mills were being introduced into Lancashire.' [6] By the time of the Crusades in the late eleventh century, fulling mills were active throughout the medieval world. [2] The mills beat the cloth with wooden hammers, known as fulling stocks or fulling ...
The abbot also owned two water mills for grinding grain, a fulling mill for finishing cloth, and a millpond on the manor. The village contained a church, a manor house, a village green, and the sub-manor of John of Elton, a rich farmer who cultivated one hide of land and had tenants of his own. The tenants' houses lined a road rather than being ...
From the Middle Ages, the lower Stour was important in this early industrial development, as its fulling mills thickened cloth made in Worcester, Kidderminster, and Kinver. From the 17th century there was a proliferation of iron forges fined pig iron and slitting mills, which cut bars of iron into rods for the production of nails in the Black ...
The invention of the water-powered fulling mill in the Later Middle Ages caused an industrial revolution in Wales. [17] In the century that preceded the Black Death, the monastic landowners and manorial lords built fulling mills in eastern Wales, with up to 80 operating before 1350. [18]
This mill is a Domesday mill. There was a fulling mill in 1438 and paper production started circa 1730. Tracing paper was discovered here after a worker accidentally added too much starch to the mixture. The paper mill is still working commercially, producing tracing paper to this day. It is owned by Arjo Wiggins. [22]
The Old Fulling Mill on the bank of the River Wear, home of the museum from 1833 to 1876 and 1975 to 2014. In 1833, the year the university opened, the Old Fulling Mill on the River Wear below Durham Cathedral became the university museum. [5] It was the second university museum in England to be open to the public.
In 1185 the preceptory was recorded as having a fulling mill shortly after acquiring the site. [4] The excavated part of the site is presumed to have fallen into disrepair by 1347, when Colton Beck was diverted through the dovecote.
Barrowburn is thought to be the site of a deserted medieval village and there was a medieval fulling mill at Windyhaugh, a short distance upstream on the River Coquet. [4] Historically, the settlement and surrounding area formed the township of Barrow, which was part of the ancient parish of Alwinton.