EPW023938 ENGLAND (1928). The Abbey Corn Mills, Tewkesbury, 1928
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| Title | [EPW023938] The Abbey Corn Mills, Tewkesbury, 1928 |
| Reference | EPW023938 |
| Date | October-1928 |
| Link | |
| Place name | TEWKESBURY |
| Parish | TEWKESBURY |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 388895, 232541 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -2.1617436597221, 51.990782726412 |
| National Grid Reference | SO889325 |
Pins
 The by-pass channel has gone and been replaced with a weir |
 MB |
Friday 9th of November 2012 06:49:20 PM |
| Severn Ham. Liable to floods |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 06:38:19 PM |
| Mill Street |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 06:35:16 PM |
| Malthouse |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 06:34:56 PM |
| Leat from the River Avon. The river originally met the Severn upstream of the leat |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 06:33:21 PM |
The leat is known as 'Mill Avon' and was presumably a major medieval engineering project |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 06:36:08 PM |
| Half-timbered building with jettied first floor |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 06:30:31 PM |
| Shadow of the biplane |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 06:29:22 PM |
| Undershot waterwheel, or possibly low breastshot |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 06:28:03 PM |
The mill was rebuilt in brick in 1793 and four waterwheel were installed at that time |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 06:47:44 PM |
| Hipped roofs - sometimes a feature on older west country watermills |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 06:27:14 PM |
User Comment Contributions
 Here's a lovely example of an Aerofilms Ltd photo that includes the shadow of the aircraft from which the picture is being taken! |
 Katy Whitaker |
Friday 9th of November 2012 09:42:57 PM |
Philip Halling has photographed a plaque on the Abbey Mill, put up by the Tewkesbury Civic Society, which gives an outline history of the water-powered structures on the site - see this image on the Geograph site: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2779276 The present building is constructed of brick |
MB |
Friday 9th of November 2012 06:44:42 PM |