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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 129
In these references appear to be indicated the site
king's^ills
of the mill which had disappeared from the manorial Liverpool. '
schedule by 1297. It is stated to be in the Castle-
fields, which extended from the Castle Hill down to
the borders of the creek or pool.^ It is also said to
be in the Dale Street and Field ; and was therefore
situated at the Castlefields' side of the pool, near the
foot of Dale Street (about opposite to the present
Technical Schools in Byrom Street). Here presumably
were the landing-place and the mill fields
Lord Derby's Map, showing Liverpool Old Field.
of 1 257-1334, the mill-dam of 1 387-1420, and the
mill itself, mentioned in the deed of 1423. The
Castlefields Mill has not been mentioned before in
local archaeology, and it has been supposed that the
two original mills stood both together at the place
now to be mentioned.
The second of the mills was situated alone in
the fields below the heath on the opposite side of
1. Eastham
Watermills,
1257-1423.
* " Le Castlefeld" is mentioned in 1330; and "Land in le Castelfeld Moore Deeds,
abutting upon le Pulle " in 1372. The name seems to have become obsolete in 106*, 222.
the fifteenth century.
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