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| HER Number: | MDV133316 |
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| Name: | Rack field names near Mill Farm, Cadeleigh |
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Summary
The field names, Higher and Lower Rack Park, recorded on the Cadeleigh 19th century Tithe Apportionment suggest that there was a fulling mill nearby and that the washed and fulled cloth was hung in these fields to dry. The adjoining farm is called Mill Farm.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SS 919 093 |
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| Map Sheet: | SS90NW |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Cadeleigh |
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| District | Mid Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | CADELEIGH |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- TENTER GROUND (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))
Full description
South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.
Plots 261 and 262 are called Lower and Higher Rack Park respectively, suggesting that there was once a fulling mill nearby. Plot 276, now Mill Farm, is named as Mill Tenement suggesting that the mill stood here although there appears to be no evidence of a mill today.
Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.
Fields still extant.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV359954 | Cartographic: South West Heritage Trust. 1838-1848. Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments. Tithe Map and Apportionment. Digital. |
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| SDV364674 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2022. Mastermap 2022. Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping. Digital. [Mapped feature: #138826 ] |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV133315 | Related to: Mill at Mill Farm, Cadeleigh (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Sep 7 2022 4:28PM |
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