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Hi.
I was born and raised in Tinwald, and as well as the mill by Tinwald House, can tell you there was a second mill on Cotland Road. Only two houses away from my address, it has long since been converted into a house (although outbuildings remain as wood-workshops).

I wonder if anyone might know much about a library in Tinwald - perhaps a private collection in the mid-1850s? It seems very far-fetched to me, but a fellow from PA USA came asking one day in spring and we had the maps out looking, but to no avail. I in fact was heading to PA only a couple of weeks later to work at a Summer Camp and amongst the many great friends I made was the family of the General Manager of the site. It turned out that his wife's ancestors had lived around and worked on Tinwald Parks Farm in the 1740s! (she was a keen geneaologist herself) Couldn't believe it - perhaps 20 to 40 people living here back then and I went half way around the world to know their descendants. It's enough to affirm one's faith!