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Re: Blythe Bridge Mill
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 17 April 24 20:27 BST (UK) »
Most of my observations were based on map-reading and a general knowledge of the mills in the Sheffield district, where they filled five rivers flowing down to the city, situated as close together as the power generated by the fall of water would allow.  This led to the development of the numerous metal trades as well as general mills for corn, fulling etc.  I have visited a few of the abandoned sites and the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet.  There is a comprehesive account of them in:
David Crossley (ed.) Water power on the Sheffield rivers, 2nd ed, Sheffield Trades Historical Society, 2006.
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1002027

Historical information on mills generally:
David Crossley. Post-medieval archaeology in Britain. Leicester University Press; 1990.  ISBN 0-71 85-1285-5
It is on the Internet Archive with limited access - this page is a list of illustrations of mills apparently in chapter 6.
https://archive.org/details/postmedievalarch0000cros/page/n9/mode/2up

I came across the mills archive, and also
http://www.midlandmills.org.uk/     which may be of interest.

I do recommend you check if there is also an enclosure award, which may well be late 18th/early 19th cent, and may contain field names of the ancient (pre-existing) enclosures, but awards do vary in their content.