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BLEACHFLELD MILL (Paper) Bleschfield Paper Mill
Bleachfield Paper Mill
Bleachfield Paper Mill
John Rule
Mr Innes. Proprietor & Manager
Mr Davidson. Ayton
011.08 A large building. with offices and drying sheds attached, all are in tolerable repair, It is used as a Manufactory for Pasteboard and affords employment to thirty persons. It is the property of Innes & Martin
PEELWALLS Peelwalls
Peelwalls
Peelwalls
John Rule
Yhomas Bowhill, Esqr
Co [County] Map
011.08 A commodious and plainly built mansion three stories high. with suitable offices and stabling attached, all are in good repair There are attached. shrubberies, a vegetable garden. ornamental grounds, also a large park, It is occupied by the proprietoress Mrs Dixon The New Statistical Account of Berwickshire Page 137. states - "An elegant new Mansion house has been built of beautiful hewn stone, brought from the far famed quarries of Killaln , in Fifeshire; and the grounds and public roads have been so completely changed & improved, that anyone who has not seen the place during that short period would be utterly at a loss to recognize it as the same"

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Parish of Ayton -- Sheet 11 No 8 Trace 6 -- Collected by J. W. Rodgers c/a [civilian assistant]

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