Millom is a town and civil parish on the estuary of the River Duddon in the southwest of Cumbria, England. The name is Cumbrian dialect for "At the mills". Millom new town takes its name from the area of land between the rivers Esk & Duddon and the Irish Sea and was begun in 1866 and subsumed the village of Holborn Hill. The name Millom was in use prior to the Norman conquest for the lands known as Millom and the name is, therefore,like Haverigg,et al, of Norse origin. The Norse word 'mellum' translates as 'between'<
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