MILLOM  , a

market town in the Egremont parliamentary division of Cumberland, England, in the extreme south-west of the county, on the Furness railway . Pop. of urban district (1901), 10,426 . The church of Holy Trinity, Early Norman and Decorated in date, is chiefly of interest for its curious pillars, alternately round and octagonal, and for a window in the north aisle, which has five lights, and is known, on account of its unique shape, as the " fish-window." A massive roodstone stands in the churchyard . Millom Castle, dating from shortly after the Conquest, was fortified in the 14th century by Sir John Huddlestone, whose descendants held it until 1774 . For centuries, they exercised the power of life and death; a stone stands where the gallows were formerly erected, and indicates that here they exercised jura regalia . Though strongly built, the castle was never of great size, and it has been largely dismantled . A fine carved staircase, however, still exists in the main chapel . In 1648 the Parliamentary forces besieged Millom Castle, and early in the 19th century its park was converted into farmland . In the neighbourhood of Millom there are blast furnaces and highly productive mines of red haematite ore . The deposit lies partly under the foreshore of the river Duddon, and a company has expended upwards of £120,000 upon a sea-wall and embankment to protect the mine from the sea .