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King's Great Shelford with miller, 1907 (Courtesy Cambridgeshire Archives KX/137/110)Kings Mill, Great Shelford
History of Kings Mill
Listed building:
Watermill mainly late C19 but incorporating part of earlier mill of C17-C18 to the North. Now offices and dwelling house. Timber framed, weatherboarded and gault brick. C17-C18 part has steeply pitched pantiled roofs. Plan of main range spanning the mill race with a range to the north.
A mill is referred to at Great Shelford in the Domesday Survey.
1890 mill modernised when a roller mill built (Vanishing Cambridgeshire p.160)
King’s Great Shelford with miller, 1907 (Courtesy Cambridgeshire Archives KX/137/110)
1911 King’s Mill
Alexander Pearce, 65, flour miller, b Shepreth
Ernest Alexander, 34, flour miller, b Great Shelford
Wilfred Henry, 32, bank clerk, b Great Shelford
Ruby Margaret, 25, b Great Shelford
Dorothy Kingbury, 22, school teacher, b Great Shelford
Annie Hammond, 19, housemaid, b Suffolk
Harriet Missing, 16, kitchen maid, b Fulbourn
1939 Kings Mill Lane
Ernest A Pearce, b 1876, flour miller and merchant
Gertrude A, b 1884,
Arnold A, b 1919, student
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Margaret Denniss, b 1919
Donald Gray, b 1921, student
Maureen Gray, b 1925, student
Kings Mill Shelford (RGL2024)
Kings Mill Shelford (RGL2024)
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