Modern watermill (site of) and associated water management.


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


The mill was one of a complex of buildings shown intact on the 1869 mapping, all but one of which have since been destroyed by coastal erosion.


The mill was supplied by a leat and millpond, both of which however still survive and provide water to a modern fish farm. Water is drawn from the river 380m upstream of the mill, the entrance to the leat being controlled by a weir and sluice. The leat extends for 160m before entering the millpond, which covers quarter of an acre.


A 130m leat connected the pond to the mill, which was protected by an overflow race which extended SW for 170m before entering the river just above the rivermouth. The course of the overflow is now occupied by a series of artificial fish pools which are fed from the leat.


The tail race would appear to have been culverted from the gable of the mill as far as a point just above the cliffline, over which it emptied onto the shore.