Eling Tide Mill

Eling Tide Mill

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Eling Tide Mill is situated on an artificial causeway in Eling in Hampshire, England. It is the sole remaining operating tide mill in the UK that has a pair of independent waterwheels designed to drive a millstone each.

One wheel runs, the other is kept as a static exhibit. The running wheel and its milling and other mechanisms are encased for safety of miller and visitors, the static wheel is immobile and kept that way to show visitors the detail that is obscured by the running mechanism's safety enclosures. The mill can be productive for between five and seven hours each day [ [http://www.kentarchaeology.ac/authors/005.pdf Spain, Rob: "A possible Roman Tide Mill", Paper submitted to the "Kent Archaeological Society", page 34] ] .

History

For much of the mill's life it has been owned by Winchester College. A lease survives from the year 1418, when the College leased the mill to Thomas Mydlington, requiring him to maintain the mill and the causeway. The causeway was prone to collapse right up until 1940 when modern engineering calculations revealed the cause to be the design of the sluices. This was then corrected. The mill was out of action between 1946 and 1980 when it reopened. [cite book |title=Old Southampton Shores, Newton Abbott |last=Pannell |first=John Percival Masterman |publisher=David and Charles |id=ASIN|B0000CNGOE |chapter=Tide Mills |date=1967 |pages=196 |isbn=] [cite web |url=http://www.elingtidemill.wanadoo.co.uk/hist.html |title=Eling Tide Mill History]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.elingtidemill.wanadoo.co.uk/ Eling Tide Mill]

ee also

* Woodbridge Tide Mill
* Carew, Pembrokeshire


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