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We have made available the mills records within this website for onward re-use and download. The data is available in two forms:
- mills_records.csv (1.7 Mb) - a *.CSV file of all the mill records.
- mills_points.js (6 Mb) - a *.GeoJSON file of all the mill records with their locations as lat/lon points.
Read further information on this Project background and data sources and further work Identifying and classifying mills to create this data.
Metadata fields
| Field | Description |
| IaraID | Unique number created by Iara in this project for each mill record. |
| OBJECTID | Unique reference number used by CANMORE / NMRS for their records. |
| Name | The name of the mill as written on the 2nd edition, 1st edition, or in Canmore. If none of these sources provided a name, an adjacent placename was adopted. Records without a name or a nearby placename were recorded as ‘Mill’. |
| AltNamProp | Alternative names that the mill was known by in addition to that given in the Name column. Can also include location information such as street name, town, river supplying water to the mill. In the case of associated features, the name of the associated mill was recorded. |
| Parish | The civil parish that the mill was in, based on parish boundaries in the 1950s. |
| County | The administrative county that this mill was in, based on county boundaries in the 1950s. |
| Map_1850s | Records if the mill was present at the time of the OS 1st edition mapping. Recorded as Yes or No where there was a high degree of certainty. ‘?’ was used when there was uncertainty. |
| Map1850s | As above but with one character Y or N values for simpler retrieval in the application |
| Clas1850s | Records the function of the mill and its power source, if known, at the time of the 1st edition mapping, following the Heritage Data controlled vocabulary. |
| 1850s_text | Free text description of mill feature from the OS 1st edition mapping. ‘?’ was used to record uncertainty. |
| Map_1900s | Records if the mill was present at the time of the OS 2nd edition mapping. Recorded as Yes or No where there was a high degree of certainty. ‘?’ was used when there was uncertainty. |
| Map1900s | As above but with one character Y or N values for simpler retrieval in the application. |
| Clas1900s | Records the function of the mill and its power source, if known, at the time of the 2nd edition mapping, following the Heritage Data controlled vocabulary. |
| 1900s_text | Free text description of mill feature from the OS 2nd edition mapping. |
| Associated | Records if other mill records are associated with this record. |
| MapPre1840 | Y or N to indicate if the mill pre-dated the OS mapping from the 1840s onwards or not. If mills were present in the CANMORE dataset, or from other sources, but not found on the map, this was usually N; if mills were present on OS maps, this was usually Y. |
| watermill | Y or N to indicate if the mill was a watermill. |
| notinCANM | Y or N to indicate if the mill record was not in the CANMORE / NMRS dataset. |
| URL | Link to the CANMORE / NMRS record, if the record is in CANMORE. |
Re-use
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