Old Hampshire Gazetteer, Town Mill, Whitchurch

	Town Mill Town Mill, Whitchurch
	water mill, mill
parish: county: coords:	Test, River Whitchurch Hampshire SU467481
	cast iron wheels made by Taskers of Andover
refce:	Ellis, C M: 1968: Gazetteer of the Water, Wind and Tide Mills of Hampshire: ProcHFC: 25: pp119-140 cast iron wheels made by Taskers of Andover

description	The place is described in text Cobbett 1830 (perhaps) Period - 19th century, early As far as we can understand Cobbett passed Town Mill on his route out of Whitchurch, as he later says, and believed this was THE paper mill.
refce:	Cobbett 1830 Whitchurch is a small town, but famous for being the place where the paper has been made for the Borough-Bank! I passed by the mill on my way to get out upon the Downs to go to Alresford where I intend to sleep. I hope the time will come, when a monument will be erected where that mill stands, and when on that monument will be inscribed 'the curse of England'. This spot ought to be held accursed in all time henceforth and for evermore. It has been the spot from which have sprung more and greater mischiefs than ever plagued mankind before. ... Quitting Whitchurch, I went off to the left out of the Winchester-road, ...

	Associated with
person	engineer: Taskers
place	- Andover- Hampshire
object
refce:	Ellis, C M: 1968: Gazetteer of the Water, Wind and Tide Mills of Hampshire: ProcHFC: 25: pp119-140

Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001