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Medway watermills, the Glossary

The Medway and its tributaries and sub-tributaries have been used for over 1,150 years as a source of power.^[1]

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Ardeer, North Ayrshire

Ardeer was a small town now officially incorporated into Stevenston on the Ardeer peninsula, in the parish of Stevenston, North Ayrshire, originally an island and later its extensive sand dune system became the site of Nobel Explosives, a dominant global supplier of explosives to the mining and quarrying industries and a major player in the design and development of products for the chemical and defence industries during the 20th century.

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Aylesford

Aylesford is a village and civil parish on the River Medway in Kent, England, northwest of Maidstone.

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Cordite

Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in Britain since 1889 to replace black powder as a military firearm propellant.

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Decimus Burton

Decimus Burton (30 September 1800 – 14 December 1881) was one of the foremost English architects and landscapers of the 19th century.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.

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Flour dresser

A flour dresser is a mechanical device used in grain mills for or flour extraction, which is the process of separating the finished flour from the other grain components by sifting following milling.

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Ford (crossing)

A ford is a shallow place with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading, or inside a vehicle getting its wheels wet.

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Frant

Frant is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England, on the Kentish border about three miles (5 km) south of Royal Tunbridge Wells.

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Fulling

Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (Scots: waukin, hence often spelled waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate (lanolin) oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it shrink by friction and pressure.

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Gristmill

A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings.

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GSK plc

GSK plc (an acronym from its former name GlaxoSmithKline plc) is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with global headquarters in London.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Hamo Hethe

Hamo Hethe was a medieval Bishop of Rochester, England.

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Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham

Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (1260 – 25 August 1339)L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, UK: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 77.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp.

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Imperial Chemical Industries

Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company.

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J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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John George Children

John George Children FRS FRSE FLS PRES (18 May 1777 – 1 January 1852 in Halstead, Kent) was a British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist.

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Maidstone

Maidstone is the largest town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town.

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Medway watermills (lower tributaries)

The River Medway and its tributaries and sub-tributaries have been used for more than 1,150 years as a source of power. Medway watermills and Medway watermills (lower tributaries) are Lists of watermills, rivers of Kent and watermills in Kent.

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Medway watermills (middle tributaries)

The Medway and its tributaries and sub-tributaries have been used for over 1,150 years as a source of power. Medway watermills and Medway watermills (middle tributaries) are Lists of watermills, rivers of Kent, rivers of Sussex and watermills in Kent.

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Medway watermills (upper tributaries)

The Medway and its tributaries and sub-tributaries have been used for over 1,150 years as a source of power. Medway watermills and Medway watermills (upper tributaries) are Lists of watermills, rivers of Kent, rivers of Sussex and watermills in Kent.

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Mill (grinding)

A mill is a device, often a structure, machine or kitchen appliance, that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting.

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Miller

A miller is a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind a grain (for example corn or wheat) to make flour.

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Millstone

Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, used for triturating, crushing or, more specifically, grinding wheat or other grains.

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Ordnance Survey

The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain.

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Paper mill

A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags, and other ingredients.

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Penshurst

Penshurst is a historic village and civil parish located in a valley upon the northern slopes of the Kentish Weald, at the confluence of the River Medway and the River Eden, within the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England.

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Postage stamp

A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail).

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River Medway

The River Medway is a river in South East England. Medway watermills and river Medway are rivers of Kent.

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River Teise

The River Teise is a tributary of the River Medway in Kent, England. Medway watermills and River Teise are rivers of Kent and watermills in Kent.

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Smelting

Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Thomas Wyatt (poet)

Sir Thomas Wyatt (150311 October 1542) was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature.

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Tide mill

A tide mill is a water mill driven by tidal rise and fall.

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Tonbridge

Tonbridge (historic spelling Tunbridge) is a market town in Kent, England, on the River Medway, north of Royal Tunbridge Wells, south west of Maidstone and south east of London.

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Transvaal Colony

The Transvaal Colony was the name used to refer to the Transvaal region during the period of direct British rule and military occupation between the end of the Second Boer War in 1902 when the South African Republic was dissolved, and the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medway_watermills

Medway watermills, the Glossary

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See also

Lists of watermills

Rivers of Kent

Rivers of Sussex

Watermills in Kent

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