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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.
Here the mill wheel is enclosedit is behind the right-hand lower small window. Apparently this was not always so, there having once been a gap in which the wheel was exposed between two buildingsthe mill house on the right, and the mill on the left.
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 | Temporal: | start=1930-01-01; | 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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