Wellesbourne Watermill
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Wellesbourne Watermill is a fine historic flour mill near Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, England on a domesday site. Situated on the River Dene, the mill is a Grade II listed building and is described as "A very complete example of a mill and mill house".<ref name=NHLE>Template:NHLE</ref>
History
Formerly known as Byford Mill, it was rebuilt in 1834. It ran commercially until 1958, latterly using a belt drive from a traction engine, the wheel last being used in 1939.<ref name=Timetrail>Template:Cite web</ref> The mill office door carries a date 1785 which formerly belonged to a post mill which stood in the adjacent field. The mill house is 18th century, thus considerably older than the present mill building.<ref name=NHLE />
In 1988 the watermill was restored to working order<ref name= Timetrail /> by the Hamilton family, predominantly Sir Andrew Hamilton, with millwright David Nicholls and the Chiltern Partnership, and is still owned by the Walton Estate. It is not currently open to the public. The adjacent mill house is now a private dwelling.
Machinery
Template:For The internal wheel is breastshot and is unusual in that it carries three sets of clasp arms around the timber axle. It measures Template:Cvt diameter and Template:Cvt wide. An Template:Cvt iron pit wheel is driven off the wheel axle and meshes with an iron wallower of Template:Convert. The spur wheel measures Template:Convert and drives two stone nuts of Template:Convert diameter.
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