Modern watermill and associated water management.


The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a group of buildings centred at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'Corn Mill'.


The mill complex was of late 18th or early 19th century date: its availability to rent is advertised in local newspapers from at least 1807, and is described as including a miller's house and kilns for drying the corn. The buildings were ruinous by the 1960s and only part of the shell of the mill survives today.


Waterpower was derived from a long 400m leat, drawn off the Sulby river from a weir immediately downstream of Sulby Woollen Mill, and augmented by the tail race from the woollen mill. The mill was protected by a complex overflow race governed by two sluices. A 150m tail race returned the water to the river.


A second leat ran from the corn mill, parallel to its tail race, to a separate small mill housed 75m downstream in one of the farmbuildings at Staward farm, where it would have processed animal feed. A separate tail race returned the water to the Sulby river a further 100m downstream.