Report - Various Pump Houses, Multiple UK Locations - 2024

[dansgas1000]

Pump house wheelpit

Mill wheelpit

Cheers for finding those photos. Good to see a least some sort of remnant of the mill remains, do you know if the mill and pump house were related at all?

 

[urbanchemist]

Didn't look anything up since there wasn't enough left.
However the mill predates the pumphouse by at least 100 years - the pumphouse may have supplied Priory Farm, or maybe the village given the size of the wheel, using the head from the old mill pond.

 

[dansgas1000]

Didn't look anything up since there wasn't enough left.
However the mill predates the pumphouse by at least 100 years - the pumphouse may have supplied Priory Farm, or maybe the village given the size of the wheel, using the head from the old mill pond.

Interesting, thanks. Yeah my first thought was that it could've supplied the farm, but you're right with a big wheel it could have supplied water to the village, at least part of it. I suppose we'll never know for sure.