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)

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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

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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

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