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| image = Wellesbourne Water Mill - geograph.org.uk - 89870.jpg
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| type = [[Watermill]]
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| location = Kineton Road, [[Wellesbourne]]
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| built = 1834
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| owner = [[Walton Hall, Warwickshire|Walton Estate]]
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| designation1_date = 20 April 1988
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'''Wellesbourne Watermill''' is a fine historic [[Watermill|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>{{NHLE |desc=WELLESBOURNE MILL AND MILL HOUSE|num= 1382030|accessdate=12 September 2018}}</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>{{cite web |title=Information for record number MWA1136: Wellesbourne Mill |url=https://timetrail.warwickshire.gov.uk/detail.aspx?monuid=WA1136 |website=Warwickshire County Council |accessdate=12 September 2018}}</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 Hall, Warwickshire|Walton Estate]].  It is not currently open to the public. The adjacent mill house is now a private dwelling.

==Machinery==
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The internal wheel is [[Water wheel#Breastshot wheel|breastshot]] and is unusual in that it carries three sets of clasp arms around the timber [[Mill machinery|axle]]. It measures {{cvt|17|ft}} diameter and {{cvt|6|ft}} wide. An {{cvt|8|ft}} iron [[Mill machinery|pit wheel]] is driven off the wheel axle and meshes with an [[iron]] [[Mill machinery|wallower]] of {{convert|3|ft|2|in|m|abbr=on}}. The [[Mill machinery|spur wheel]] measures {{convert|7|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}} and drives two [[Mill machinery|stone nuts]] of {{convert|18|in|cm|abbr=on}} diameter.

==See also==
*[[List of watermills in the United Kingdom]]

==References==
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[[Category:Grade II listed buildings in Warwickshire]]
[[Category:Watermills in England]]
[[Category:Stratford-on-Avon District]]


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