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Description: | There were once three mills operating on the Barford stream, the upper and lower ones involved in paper-making, while the middle one ground corn. The county and parish boundaries run down the centre of the streamso while the Lower Mill was said in 1884 to have the largest water wheel in Surrey, the mill itself was actually in Hampshire.
Barford middle mill, shown in this picture and in [hs-hl-johnowensmith-i-83-000.jpg] stopped working commercially at some time prior to the 1930s and has now been converted into a private house.
The upper and lower mills stopped working in the 1880s and have since been demolished, though the mill house of the lower mill still standsan impressive three-storey building near Barford bridge.
Tilbury and Warren families were shown as being involved in papermaking at Barford in the 1841 and 1851 censuses of Headley parish, but by 1891 only a flock mill is mentioned.
The middle mill was the oldest-established of the three, being mentioned in a pipe roll of the manor of Farnham in 1264the others dated only from the 1730s. | 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 Tilbury Warren | Temporal: | start=1923-01-01; | 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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