Worsbrough Mill
Worsbrough Mill, also known as Worsbrough Corn Mill and Worsbrough Mill Farm is a complex of buildings including a seventeenth-century water-powered mill and a nineteenth-century steam-powered mill in Worsbrough, Barnsley, England. The mill is open to the public and takes its water from the River Dove, but is hydraulically separate from Worsbrough Reservoir.
Note that "Worsbrough" refers to an area that includes today's
Worsbrough Mill Country Park
Worsbrough Mill is located in the 240-acre Worsbrough Country Park,[1] about 2 miles south of Barnsley on the A61, close to the M1 motorway.[2] It includes the 60-acre Worsbrough Reservoir, which was built for the opening of the Dearne and Dove Canal in 1804.[3]
The park includes footpaths and cyclepaths that meander through Willow Carr and around the circumference of the reservoir. Fishing is available in the upper pond and canal basin.[4]
History
A Worsbrough Mill was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 and the first Curator, [Rob Shorland-Ball – 1975 to 1979] researched the history and states that a "tenuous but continuous documentary record can be traced from then to 1625 which is the likely date for the building of the existing Old Mill. Whether the pre-1625 mill(s) were on the same site is not known. However, a mill was a very important part of the feudal pattern of life and settlement and thus tended to remain on the same site if that site was a satisfactory one".
Buildings
The oldest building (the Old Mill) is a two-storey watermill with massive lintels over the doors; it is operational and mills a small amount of grain. There is some doubt over the date of construction; there are no dates on or in the buildings (with one exception) but 1625 has been stated (by Shorland-Ball) to be "acceptably representative".
The New Mill was originally steam-driven and contained a Watt-type
See also
References
- Hadfield, Charles (1973). The Canals of Yorkshire and North East England (Vol 2). David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5975-4.
- ^ "Country Park". Worsbrough Mill. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
- ^ "Worsbrough Reservoir Phototrail". Photo Trails. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
- ^ Hadfield 1973, pp. 283–285
- ISSN 0963-1496.
External links
- - Worsbrough Mill: Working Mill and Country Park - official site