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From the medieval period, the fulling of cloth was often done in a water mill, known as a fulling mill, a walk mill, or a tuck mill, and in Wales, a pandy. They appear to have originated in the 9th or 10th century in Europe. The earliest known reference to a fulling mill in France, which dates from about 1086, was discovered in Normandy. [3]
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.
Tuckingmill (Cornish: Talgarrek, meaning hill-brow of a rock) is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which is in the civil parish of Camborne.Tucking Mill (Cornish: Melyn Droghya, from the verb troghya) was the Cornish term for a fulling mill which was where homespun cloth was dipped, cleansed and dressed.
Fulling mills were later established elsewhere in Wales, particularly in the north east and the Ceiriog valley. In 1380, the lordship of Ruthin in Denbighshire had 36 weavers. However, the period from 1350 to 1400 was difficult, with recurrences of the plague and heavy taxation to pay for the war with France. [ 17 ]
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.
Jim Woodward-Nutt & Jenny West: Mills Open, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, UK, 1997 Neil Wright (Ed), Lincolnshire's Industrial Heritage , Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, UK 2004, ISBN 0 903582 20 1
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 ...
During the medieval period, Beckington was a major centre for the wool trade. [2] By the 15th century, fulling mills had been built along the banks of the River Frome which supported the spinning and weaving cottage industries. [2]