2008
ST6848 : Coleford: The Mill
taken 16 years ago, near to Coleford, Somerset, England
Coleford: The Mill
Coleford Mill, seen from a public footpath, once a track, that runs to Leigh-on-Mendip. This building is thought to date from 1794, just before construction started on the ill-fated Dorset & Somerset Canal. The mill worked until 1919 and was rescued from dereliction in the 1960s. A 15’ diameter breastshot waterwheel remained in situ within the structure in the 1980s. It was powered by the Mells Stream, which once drove many waterwheels in the valley between Nettlebridge and Frome. Mells is said to be a corruption of ‘mills’
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