Lease for one year of land and premises at Beckery Mill, Glastonbury and at Street, Somerset
- MCFC-IND-069-006
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- 26 August 1812
One vellum sheet measuring approximately 61 cm x 81 cm comprising a lease for one year signed and sealed by George Phippen Reeves ("heretofore called George Reeves only"), formerly a miller in Glastonbury, now a baker at Chilton, Somerset, to John Collings and John Fry Reeves. The property leased at Beckery Mill includes the bakehouse, furnace, dough troughs and tables as well as the mill house and two water grist mills (plus equipment) "containing and working two pair of stones under the same roof together with one malt kiln and two boulting mills for dressing flour", as well as the Mill Drove, the pastureland next to the mill known as Bridges or Brides and also a meadow known as Marshall Wall, much of which having been recently planted as orchards.