EPW023938 ENGLAND (1928). The Abbey Corn Mills, Tewkesbury, 1928

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Details

Title [EPW023938] The Abbey Corn Mills, Tewkesbury, 1928
Reference EPW023938
Date September-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

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Friday 9th of November 2012 06:35:16 PM

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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

MB
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