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Latitude: 54.2999 / 54°17'59"N
Longitude: -2.1995 / 2°11'58"W
OS Eastings: 387116
OS Northings: 489382
OS Grid: SD871893
Mapcode National: GBR FL2Q.MC
Mapcode Global: WHB5M.55WZ
Plus Code: 9C6V7RX2+X6
Entry Name: Gayle Mill
Listing Date: 25 March 1969
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1132000
English Heritage Legacy ID: 323144
ID on this website: 101132000
Location: Gayle, North Yorkshire, DL8
County: North Yorkshire
District: Richmondshire
Civil Parish: Hawes
Built-Up Area: Hawes
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Tagged with: Spinning mill
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SD 88 NE
20/121
HAWES
GAYLE
Gayle Mill
25.3.69
GV
II*
Cotton mill, now saw mill. c1784. Rubble, stone slate roof. Three storeys, six bays. Quoins. In bay three, leaved board doors under deep timber lintel, with small wheels set in floor for movement of timber onto saw-bench inside. Original 16-pane fixed-light windows mostly replaced by eight-pane windows. Stack at end left, former bellcote at end right.
Rear elevation: blocked tail-race opening from wheelchamber in corner near stream with round arch of rubble voussoirs and hood-mould; regular pattern of windows. Right return: blocked doorway formerly giving access to axle of waterwheel in centre of ground floor. Left return: first-floor end entry with leaved board doors.
Interior: two workable water turbines by Williamson of Kendal. The mill was switched to spinning wool for the local knitting industry in the late C18, and was converted to a saw mill in the C19. The overshot waterwheel was replaced by turbines in the late C19. From 1919 - 1948 the turbines supplied electric light for the village.
James Alderson, Under Wetherfell (1980), pp 132-3.
Listing NGR: SD8711689382
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