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placename:- Bassinghyll Gunpowder Mills
other name:- Bassingill Gunpowder Mills
other name:- Basingill Gunpowder Mills
site name:- Kent, River
parish Sedgwick parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
gunpowder mill; mill
coordinates:- SD508868
10Km square:- SD58

1Km square SD5086

On the River Kent, licensed 1790, to W H Wakefield and Co, operated up to 1935.
Tyler, Ian: 2002: Gunpowder Mills of Cumbria: Blue Roc Publications (Threlkeld, Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 9523028 8 8

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