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Rilla Mill (Cornish : Melin Reslegh) [1] is a small settlement in Cornwall, England, part of the civil parish of Linkinhorne, some 1+12 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]

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References

  1. Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF)  : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel. Cornish Language Partnership.
  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

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