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The Corn Mills in the Glasbury Area
This page is from the Welsh Archives with particular
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Boughrood Mill
Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 23007
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Site Type : Corn mill
Period : Post-Medieval
Community : Glasbury
NGR : SO131385
Legal Protection :
Description :
Former mill dismantled by 1940. Shown on Tithe Map of 1844. Situated
on the banks of the Wye and fed by a 50 yard leat, undershot wheel
with diameter of 14 feet. The building was three storeys was built
in stone. (Ridyard, G W 1993, 47-9)
Earliest reference to the mill dates to 1771, ceased working
in 1910 (Ridyard, G W, 1998).
Sources :
Ridyard, G W , 1993 , Supplementary notes on the watermills of
Radnorshire , Melin : 9 : 30-61
Ridyard, G W , 1998 , Radnorshire Water Powered Corn Mills, Pandies,
Farm Wheels, Tannery, Bark Mills etc
The keeper of the Boat Inn at Boughrood was also the miller,
but by 1895 the miller there was also a coal merchant and not
an inn keeper.
Cilcenny Mill
Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 35160
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Site Type : Corn mill
Period : Post-Medieval
Community : Glasbury
NGR : SO174415
Legal Protection :
Description :
Corn Mill. Earliest known mention of it was in 1772. Was not working
by 1841 (Ridyard, G W, 1998).
Rubble stone blocks and a long narrow hollow (which must have
been the pond) are all that remains of this site (Ridyard, G W,
1998a, 25).
Sources :
Ridyard, G W , 1998 , Supplementary notes on the water mills of
Radnorshire - part V , Melin : 14 : 15-50
Ridyard, G W , 1998 , Radnorshire Water Powered Corn Mills, Pandies,
Farm Wheels, Tannery, Bark Mills etc
Cwm Mill
Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 26230
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Site Type : Corn mill
Period : Post-Medieval
Community : Glasbury
NGR : SO162406
Legal Protection :
Description :
Corn Mill. Earliest known mention of it was in 1820. It is thought
to have stopped functioning before 1881 (Ridyard, G W, 1998 and
1998ay).
Sources :
Ridyard, G W , 1998 , Supplementary notes on the water mills of
Radnorshire - part V , Melin : 14 : 15-50
Ridyard, G W , 1998 , Radnorshire Water Powered Corn Mills, Pandies,
Farm Wheels, Tannery, Bark Mills etc
Cwm Mill as at August 3rd 1888
- Arthur Battiscombe collection
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Little Mill
Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 37390
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Site Type : Corn mill
Period : Post-Medieval
Community : Glasbury
NGR : SO18324098
Legal Protection :
Description :
Corn Mill. Earliest known mention of it was in 1601. It is thought
to have stopped functioning at the turn of the century (Ridyard,
G W, 1998).
Mill building was 4 storeys high and had been fitted with an
overshot wheel. Portions of the water wheel were still present
in 1940, but were probably taken for scrap metal in the 2nd WW
(Ridyard, G W, 1998a, 21-2).
Sources :
Davies, D S , 1940 , title unknown - Monaughty Mill , The Transactions
of the Radnorshire Society : 10 : 33-56 ?
Ridyard, G W , 1998 , Supplementary notes on the water mills of
Radnorshire - part V , Melin : 14 : 15-50
Ridyard, G W , 1998 , Radnorshire Water Powered Corn Mills, Pandies,
Farm Wheels, Tannery, Bark Mills etc
Llan-Marchell Mill
Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 23008
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Site Type : Corn mill
Period : Post-Medieval
Community : Glasbury
NGR : SO139423
Legal Protection :
Description :
Former mill documented in sale details of 1804. Not mentioned
in Census returns of 1841 and was probably disused by then. Traces
of a leat and pond survive although much damaged together with
a small piece of walling (Ridyard, G W 1993, 49-51).
Earliest known record of this mill dates to 1784 (Ridyard, G
W, 1998).
Sources :
Ridyard, G W , 1993 , Supplementary notes on the watermills of
Radnorshire , Melin : 9 : 30-61
Ridyard, G W , 1998 , Radnorshire Water Powered Corn Mills, Pandies,
Farm Wheels, Tannery, Bark Mills etc
Llowes Mill
Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 23005
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Site Type : Corn mill
Period : Post-Medieval
Community : Glasbury
NGR : SO1915841710
Legal Protection : listed building II
Description :
Former mill on Garth Brook, a tributary of the R. Wye. Now derelict,
only c16 by 14 feet, two storeys with an attic and single storey
annexed on the north side. It is covered in ivy and is said to
contain its machinery still. The wheel was said to be a "clasp
arm" type. Mentioned in 1891 Census. It ceased working at
around 1920 (Ridyard, G W 1993, 47, Ridyard, G W, 1997, 61-2).
Earliest known record of mill dates to 1844 (Ridyard, G W, 1998).
NGR formerly SO1921241683. Changed to current NGR after checking
Listed Building record and 1st edition OS map (Spencer, J, 2012).
Sources :
Ridyard, G W , 1993 , Supplementary notes on the watermills of
Radnorshire ,
Melin : 9 : 30-61
Ridyard, G W , 1997 , Supplementary notes on the watermills of
Radnorshire - part IV , Melin : 13 : 55-87
Ridyard, G W , 1998 , Radnorshire Water Powered Corn Mills, Pandies,
Farm Wheels, Tannery, Bark Mills etc
Cadw , 2000 , Database of Listed Buildings in Wales
Cadw , 2008 , Database of Listed Buildings in Wales ( © CPAT)
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Entry Name: Tregoyd Mill House
Listing Date: 15 December 1995
Last Amended: 15 December 1995
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 17068
Building Class: Industrial
Location:
Located at the N end of the hamlet of Tregoyd, at the NE side of
the small brook from Tregoyd Common to the Wye at Aberllynfi.
County: Powys Community: Gwernyfed Locality: Tregoyd
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
History:
A corn mill of the early-mid C19 or earlier, serving the locality,
utilising two separate water courses supplying a millpond at high
level. The mill, originally of 2 bays, was extended beyond the gable
stack by a further bay in brick in the later C19, and the mill was
refitted in the early C20. It ceased to grind corn c1920-30, becoming
a sawmill which operated into the 1960's
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Exterior
Rubble stonework, colourwashed to front, and with a slate roof.
Two storeys, with overshot wheel at the W end. Lean-to porch at
E end, and c1965 timber windows. The water was piped to a delivery
cistern at high level, by Maund of Brecon, discharging over the
iron wheel with curved buckets, and exhausting through an underground
culvert to a ditch on the N side of the mill.
Interior
The interior has a back-to-back stack between the first and second
bays, and newel stair behind the stack entered from the added first
bay. Heavy timber lintel over the original gable fireplace in the
second bay. The third bay, beyond a timber screen, contains the
surviving mid-C19 machinery; a fruitwood-cogged iron pit wheel engaging
an iron wallower on a multi-facetted vertical shaft, driving two
underdrift stones through iron stone nuts. At the side of the machinery,
a mill stair to the upper floor, containing one pair of French burrs
in position, the other pair, also of quartzite, remain on site.
Timber tentering gear and remains of sack hoist machinery, and of
a belt drive for a boulter.
Reasons for Listing:
Included as of interest in retaining much of the mid C19 machinery.
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