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The Loughter grist and corn mills were located in Holly Wood, just to the south-east of Newnham Park, in the parish of Plympton St Mary. Loughter Mills certainly was in existence before 1731, when it was mentioned in the papers of the Strode family of Newnham. Devonport-born Andrew Moore was the miller here at the time of the 1851 census. He was assisted by his son, also Andrew, aged 25. With them lived Andrew's wife, Amy, plus their other children, Emily, Elizabeth, Francis, John, Lydia, and Mary Jane, the youngest at just four years old. Twenty-eight-years-old Prsicilla Sollick, from Bickleigh, was a general servant and 14-years-old William Perkings was their agricultural labourer. Messrs John Tregillus & Son were milers here in 1890. Loughtor was the only mill still listed in the Plymouth area by the outbreak of the Second World War, when Sydney Gulley was the miller. In the early 1950s Loughtor Mill House was occupied by Mr Charles Robert Gulley, who presumably was Sydney's son.
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