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Description: | Downstream from Standford Corn Mill (see hs-hl-johnowensmith-i-92-000.jpg) is Headley Mill, which is also a corn mill and is still in commercial operation today.
The clear view of the mill shown here is no longer to be seen, due to the growth of trees along the border of the road. Note how narrow the mill pond isit was later widened considerably.
This picture and [hs-hl-johnowensmith-i-96-000.jpg] taken from much the same spot show the Liphook road as it comes from the mill, passes Headley Mill Farm and bends towards us on the way to Standford.
Headley Mill, owned by the Ellis family since 1914, is the last water mill working commercially in Hampshire. The mill wheel is breast-shot from a head of seven and a half feet and drives four pairs of old-style stones, each nearly 4ft in diameter and 10ins thick, producing flour and animal feeds.
It is assumed that there has been a mill here since Saxon times. Mr Laverty, when he was Rector of Headley, said that it was mentioned in the Domesday Bookother scholars have disputed this. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | John Owen Smith | Subjects: | mill Ellis J Ellis & Sons Ltd pond | Temporal: | start=1910-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | John Owen Smith | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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