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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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