« Reply #28 on: Wednesday 26 November 14 10:36 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the link to the lovely map Michael. I haven't looked at it for a while.
This is really confusing! Doesn't the first (most northerly) windmill symbol relate to Bucks Hill Mill? And the second symbol to the Crofton mill located east of the settlement called Crofton?
And when Bucks Hill falls into disrepair around the 1840s, the replacement mill, also called Crofton mill is built close to the site of the old Bucks Hill Mill. Is that right? I think that's what Phodgetts suggests. So from this point there are 2 completely separate Crofton Mills... the original that existed at the time of the 1828 map and the new Crofton Mill.
Is Hodgsons Mill on Cowpen Quay the same mill as the Crofton Mill that replaced Bucks Hill Mill?
I'm just trying to sort this out as I seem to have relatives who have lived in all of these places! But who actually moved house!? eg Elizabeth Wright b 1839 in Bucks Hill Mill later marries Ralph Davison and is registered living in Crofton Mill at the time of the 1871 census. In 1881 she is registered living in Hodgsons Mills - with the same (unrelated) neighbour as in 1871. So I presume this is the same place.
Thanks to you all for keeping me right! I hope I'm slowly getting there..
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