Oakwood Mill, Bream (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Monday, February 09, 2009, 03:21 (5839 days ago) @ tonyjenkins

A mill built c. 1434 on Horwell hill (later Bream's Meend) by Richard Lawrence of Bream (fn. 72) was demolished before 1623. (fn. 73) It probably stood on a tributary, since disappeared, of Oakwood brook. (fn. 74) The latter brook powered Oakwood Mill, a corn mill recorded from 1520 in a detached part of Newland

Oakwood Mill, which used steam power by 1885, closed c. 1900

From: 'Forest of Dean: Industry', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred,
St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 326-354.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23267 Date accessed: 09 February 2009.

1876
MUSGROVE Samuel, miller, Oakwood mills, and "Oakwood" inn

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