Modern mill tail race.


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


The mill complex was of late 18th or early 19th century date. The buildings were ruinous by the 1960s and only part of the shell of the mill survives today. Waterpower was derived from a leat drawn off the Sulby river from a weir immediately downstream of Sulby Woollen Mill. A second mill leat then directed part of the water supply from the corn mill to a mill housed at Staward farm itself for processing animal feed. A separate tail race returned the water to the Sulby river a further 100m downstream.


The grid reference relates to a point midway along its course for indicative purposes. The channel has been filled in, and is only traceable as a soil- or crop-mark.