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Cowage Farm & Bremilham Mill

Bremilham (alias Cowage) used to be a separate parish from close-by   Foxley   until the late 19th Century.   The current building (also known as the mortuary chapel) replaces the original which was demolished circa 1850.   The church is located on Cowage Farm, and close-by is Bremilham Mill cottage and, as the name suggests, a water mill.

The cottage was locked up in 1953 when it became unfit to be lived in.   The house needed to be boarded up to prevent stray animals from entering it after a cow managed to get into the house and climb the narrow staircase.   The animal had to be lowered by slings through a hole cut in the bedroom floor in order to get it back out of the house!   Over the last few years the current owners have been extensively restoring the house.   Previous tenants of the Mill:   Ernest and Annie Lea and son Dennis (Mandy's family), Mrs Pink (mother of seventeen children), Bill Bell, Mrs Wyles, Mr and Mrs Fred Simpkins, Fred Goodfield, Bill Clark, Tim Rich, Charlie Watts, Albert and Audrey Fishlock (its last inhabitants).   (Information from Don Lea.)

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Bremilham Church
August 2005
(No.043 - 595k)

[Photo: Don Lea]
1990 (No. 001 - 264k)

August 2005
(No.026 - 636k)

August 2005
(No.042 - 771k)

August 2005
(No.041 - 600k)

September 2004
(No.027 - 475k)

September 2004
(No.028 - 402k)

September 2004
(No.029 - 511k)

August 2005
(No.032 - 973k)

August 2005
(No.035 - 473k)

August 2005
(No.40 - 768k)

View looking out from entrance
August 2005
(No.033 - 496k)

Kenneth Leslie COLLINS
[Temporary]
September 2004
(No.011 - 870k)

DASH
September 2004
(No.008 - 758k)

Only part of inscription is readable
September 2004
(No.009 - 621k)

Robert & William HILLIER
September 2004
(No.010 - 915k)




Cowage Farm and Bremilham Mill

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'The Big House', Cowage Farm
On the left is Mr Rich, the owner
(292k)

[Photo: Don Lea]
1992 (453k)

Boarded up before renovations started
[Photo: Don Lea]
1992 (407k)

Bremilham Mill
Ernest & Annie (nee Legg) & Dennis LEA
Approx 1912
(004 - 231k)

Ernest Lea
The Mill is in the background
August 2005
(No.44 - 941k)

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