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St. Helens Gate Mill or Low Mill
A corn mill was attached to the Teresa Cottage / Hall Garth site and it became a saw mill at the end of the 19th century. It carried on as a saw mill until the second world war. Some references clearly describe Low Mill attached to the Hall Garth / Teresa cottage site, however K.J. Allison in "East Riding Water Mills", and one map, has White Mill called Low Mill.
1854 os map
1854 OS Map shows St Helens Gate Mill as a Corn Mill
1891 os Low Mill
The 1891 OS Map shows it as a Saw Mill
1844 ww
1844 William Watson map with Miller Richard Donn
watson 1855
William Watson's 1855 map has Daniel Fountain as the Miller
Mill 1806
The Hull Packet, April 22, 1806
(the word capital is usually associated with the Manor)
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1835 Low Mill Pocklington

York Herald - Saturday 02 May 1835
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Yorkshire Gazette - Saturday 04 July 1857
Yorkshire Gazette - Saturday 04 July 1857
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kelsey mill 1880
York Herald - Thursday 16 August 1888
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kelsey mill
York Herald - Thursday 22 May 1890
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kelsey mill
York Herald - Saturday 09 April 1892
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York Herald - Thursday 14 April 1892
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Kelseys Mill 1892
York Herald - Saturday 02 July 1892
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References to Low Mill
   
1829 EH 289 327
Deeds Registry in Beverley

Memorial Lease and Release seventeenth and eighteenth days of November 1829 between Teresa Haggertson Constable late of Pocklington now in Thayer Street Manchester Square Marylebone Middlesex Spinster of the one part and John Burnell of Pockllington Gentleman of the other part and the Release made or expressed to be made Between the said Teresa Haggertson Constable of the first part the said John Burnell of the second part William Hobson of Copmanthorpe York Farmer of the third part Charles Haggertson Constable Stanley late of Allerthorpe in said County of Somerset a esquire of the fourth part and Martin Burnell of Bishopthorpe in the said Ainsty of the city of York Gentleman of the fifth part messuage tenement  a dwelling house with the barn stable and other Out Buildings and garth adjoining and belonging also  All that piece or parcel of pasture grounds containing by all that three acres two woods and 28 perches two acres three roads and ten perches  Also one other close or parcel of a Ground being called the Corn Field containing 4 acres 10 perches one other close piece parcel grass field 4 acres one wood 36 perches making together fifteen acres and 3 perches formerly known as Hall Garths and Beckland premise lying together at Pocklington and joining upon the same dwelling houses formerly occupied by Teresa Haggertson Constable and Rev David Jones are now of the said John Burnell and Teresa Haggertson Constable of John Weddall and boardered by lands belonging to Robert Dennison Esq of the north, the road called the Mile on the West, on the Mill called Low Mill on the east and Mill Dam on the south.


If you wish to add to the story of the Low or St Helens gate Mill, or correct any of the above information, then please contact me.