Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1907)
Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) · Shrewsbury [etc.] Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society · leaf 362
o turn it. The Rev. \V. G.D. Fletcher says, speaking of the house :— Opposite to thehouse lies the pond close, in which, tradition says, the oldmill stooa1 ; and the place where the stream was dammed upis still visible. The local legend asserts that the last millerkilled a deer as it was crossing… … tAh I 5ID £ UPPER MILLICHOPE. The name Millichope suggests the existence of a mill; andEyton, speaking of the derivation of the word, says :— TheSaxon word mylen and the British word melin both signifya mill ; while millyn (British) is a violet- The various spell-ings make the etymology of the word…
Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) · Excavations (Archaeology) · Natural history
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