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MILLOM , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:Egremont See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cumberland, See also:England, in the extreme See also:south-See also:west of the See also:county, on the See also:Furness railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901), 10,426. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of See also:Holy Trinity, See also:Early See also:Norman and Decorated in date, is chiefly of See also:interest for its curious pillars, alternately See also:round and octagonal, and for a window in the See also:north See also:aisle, which has five See also:lights, and is known, on See also:account of its unique shape, as the " See also:fish-window." A massive roodstone stands in the See also:churchyard. Millom See also:Castle, dating from shortly after the See also:Conquest, was fortified in the 14th See also:century by See also:Sir See also:John Huddlestone, whose descendants held it until 1774. For centuries, they exercised the See also:power of See also:life and See also:death; a See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone stands where the gallows were formerly erected, and indicates that here they exercised See also:jura See also:regalia. Though strongly built, the castle was never of See also:great See also:size, and it has been largely dismantled. A See also:fine carved See also:staircase, however, still exists in the See also:main See also:chapel. In 1648 the Parliamentary forces besieged Millom Castle, and early in the 19th century its See also:park was converted into farmland. In the neighbourhood of Millom there are blast furnaces and highly productive mines of red See also:haematite ore. The See also:deposit lies partly under the See also:foreshore of the See also:river Duddon, and a See also:company has expended upwards of £120,000 upon a See also:sea-See also:wall and See also:embankment to protect the mine from the sea.
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