Apropos of nothing much in particular, the majority of the mills listed
in the Domesday Book must have been watermills. In order to test this
one idle afternoon, I looked at a sample of the Berkshire Domesday
mills. About three-quarters of those villages were within one mile of a
waterway sufficiently large to be named on the 1:50,000 OS map. There
was one marginal case, so I looked to see what the name of the waterway
was: it was "Mill Stream"!
John Briggs
On 09/12/2010 14:42, Richard Coates wrote:
> Sorry for all these thoughts milling around in my head: but there are lots of Miltons. I wonder whether a Cweorn-tu:n was an estate perceived as remarkable or backward because it didn’t have a mylen at the moment of naming?
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