Rilla Mill Explained

Rilla Mill (Cornish: Melin Reslegh)^[1] is a small settlement in Cornwall, England, part of the civil parish of Linkinhorne, some miles to the west of Linkinhorne village.^[2]

The New Bridge over the River Lynher at Rilla Mill replaced a medieval clapper bridge, which was demolished in the 1890s to make way for it.^[3]

Notes and References

1. http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF)
2. Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Bodmin and Launceston, sheet 186. 1961.
3. Charles Henderson, Henry Coates, Old Cornish Bridges and Streams (University College of the South West, 1928), pp. 12, 62