River Gavenny
The River Gavenny or sometimes the Gavenny River (
The diminutive Gavenny is something of a
River crossings
The river is crossed by road bridges north of Mardy at Triley Mill and at St Teilo's Church and also, to the east of Mardy by those carrying Nantgavenny Lane, Hereford Road (
Corn mills on the Gavenny
There is a long history of exploitation of the Gavenny's flow to power
Little Mill was a corn mill on Ross Road (at OS grid ref SO 3063 1465) dating back at least to 1707. A waterwheel and wheel pit lay immediately north of the still-surviving sandstone building which still contains original machinery.[9] Little Mill House, a nineteenth-century building, stands just to its east.[10] Priory Mill immediately to the northeast of Abergavenny (OS grid ref SO 3031 1445), still in use in the late nineteenth century had fallen into disuse by 1901. Traces of the 200 m-long leat fed from a weir on the river and of the millpond remain in the publicly accessible woodland which is traversed by a section of the Beacons Way.[11] A former corn mill is recorded at OS grid ref SO 3000 1385 on Mill Street, Abergavenny. Water was led to this mill via a leat, now filled, from a weir immediately downstream of the bridge carrying Lower Monk Street over the river.[12][13] The lowermost mill on the river was Philpotts Mill (at OS grid ref SO 3016 1375) recorded as a working mill in the late nineteenth century but which had ceased operation by 1920.[14]
Afon Cibi
The last tributary of the Gavenny before it meets with the Usk is the right-bank Afon Cibi, which despite its name is a stream rather than a river. The Cibi rises on the southern flanks of Sugar Loaf draining the ground between the Deri and Rholben spurs of that hill. Chapel Mill (at OS grid ref SO 2918 1556) was a corn mill still in operation on the Cibi in the early 1880s, with a short mill race and ponds fed from the stream. The mill had fallen into disuse by 1901. Much of the course of the stream through Abergavenny is now culverted though sections through Bailey Park and east of Market Street still run in the open.[15]
References
- ^ "Great Triley Wood, Abergavenny". Woodland Trust. Woodland Trust. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "St Teilo's Church, Llantilio Pertholey (307314)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "Blaengavenny (36471)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ Campbell, S. & Bowen, D.Q. Geological Conservation Review: 'Quaternary of Wales', Nature Conservancy Council, Peterborough
- ^ "Bing maps". Bing maps. Bing. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "Trily Mill, Abergavenny (40098)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "Brooklands Mill (413668)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "Cwm Mill, Maerdy (413668)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "Corn Mill, Ross Road, Abergavenny (40082)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "Mill House, Ross Road, Abergavenny (410041)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "Priory Mill (413670)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "Monmouthshire VI.15 (Abergavenny Rural; Abergavenny Urban; Llanfoist Fawr)". NLS. National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "Corn Mill, Mill Street, Abergavenny (40075)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "Philpott's Mill, Abergavenny (413671)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "Chapel Mill (413669)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 4 April 2020.