Stott Park Bobbin Mill
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Stott Park Bobbin Mill is a 19th-century bobbin mill and now a working museum located near Newby Bridge, Cumbria, England. Built in 1835, the mill was one of over 65 buildings in the Lake District whi
Stott Park Bobbin Mill
The interior of the mill
Horizontal steam engine for driving the line shafting in the mill. Built by W Bradley, Gooder Lane Ironworks, Brighouse
Furness Abbey
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Furness Abbey, or St. Mary of Furness, is a former monastery located to the north of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The abbey dates back to 1123 and was once the second-wealthiest and most power
Stott Park Bobbin Mill
…in 2015. The name Stott Park derives from the Cumbrian dialect word stott meaning a bullock or young ox. The whole area of High Furness belonged to Furness Abbey during the Middle Ages and it is likely that at this time or in the early modern period, land was enclosed as a park to provide pasture for young beef…
The abbey in August 2007
Ruins of the abbey's former infirmary
View looking across the former guesthouse towards the Cemetery Gatehouse and main church building
The ruins of Furness Abbey seen from the south in the 1890s