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mirroring exactly the working hours of the Mill. The water turned the famous
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were built and remained till recently. Used from 1795 to 1813 these belonged to the
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cotton works. Much of the dam banks was created by French prisoners of war. The dam was situated so that the water to power the mill took exactly 12 hours to reach
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