The Mill, Milton Road / Ely Road OS 188526 Hurst Park Avenue, Mill Cottage and Mill House
History of Mill Cottage
A website devoted to the history of the Hurst Park Estate can he found here:
https://hpehistory.wordpress.com
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In the 19th century the mill at this location was owned by William French; it was served by a track from Milton Road.
There is a detailed history of the mill here:
The mill and surrounding land
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1851: Mill House, Ely Road, Chesterton
Henry Mann, miller, b 1826 Rampton
Sarah née Ablett
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1861: Milton Road
Henry Mann, 35, miller, b Rampton
Sarah, b Cottenham
Emily, 8, b Chesterton
Martha, 6, b Chesterton
Henry John, 4, b Chesterton
Amelia, 2, b Chesterton
In July 1861 Henry Mann was declared bankrupt. In 1871 the family are living at Roebuck Lane, Chesterton.
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1908:
View (1908) from Mill Road of windmill in later Hurst Park Estate
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1913:
William Blackwell
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1901:
(Mill House)
Edmund Burton, land agent
Sarah Burton
(French’s Mill House)
Baker family
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(Mill House)
Baker family
(Mill Cottage)
William Blackwell, butcher’s horse-keeper and gromm
Emma Blackwell, three children and mother Elizabeth
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1925:
In this year the mill is disused and was used as a store for a slaughterhouse next door.
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1930:
Disused Windmill in Hurst Park c.1930
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1939: (Mill Cottage)
Doris E Rawlinson, b 1907
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Amy A Ruse, b 1899, bed maker at college
Thomas Course, b 1885, painter and house decorator