Monument Type(s):

• CORN MILL (Medieval to Late 18th century - 1066 AD to 1799 AD)
• WATERMILL (Medieval to Late 19th century - 1066 AD to 1899 AD)
• SAW MILL (Early 19th century to Early 20th century (pre-war) - 1800 AD to 1913 AD)

Summary

Scheduled Monument: The site of a post medieval corn mill, possibly of medieval origin, which lies within the Scheduled area of Stokesay Castle.

Related records

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events: None recorded

Description

Water Mill symbol <1>

Mill <2>

Corn Mill at SO 4372 8157, with a pond to the W at SO 4348 8163 (not titled) and another immediately N of the mill, titled as Mill Pond, at SO 4371 8161. The latter pond is fed by the River Onny by means of a leat. Hence the river acted as the by pass to the mill <3>

Building, use not indicated. This appears to be the same building as depicted on reference source 3. The two ponds are titled as mill ponds <4>

Building, use not indicated. Map indicates probable survival of historic building(s). The pond to the W is shown; the location of the other pond is shown as a marshy area. The leat is also not depicted-presumably infilled <5>

Within the Scheduled area of Stokesay Castle <6>

Corn Mill <7>

On the 2nd of September 2014 a History and Description plus the Reasons for Designation were added to the National Heritage List for England Entry for Stokesay Castle (1003011).
A complex system of ponds, dams, sluices and culverts is associated with the Castle. [PRN 08250] A leat takes water from the River Onny above the weir at Stokesay Bridge to a mill SE of the Castle.[PRN06973]. Earthworks between the Castle and the mill may represent a second mill-pond, fed from an independent source. A causeway S of the castle held back a pond, fed by a stream from the NW, which almost certainly supplied the castle moat, and which may also have served as a fishpond. Culverts under the causeway were controlled by sluices. Some of the works must be medieval in origin; the system is unlikely to be later than the first half of the C17. <8>

<01> Baugh R, 1808, Map of Shropshire (Map). SSA2165.

<02> Ordnance Survey, 1833, OS First Edition 1 inch Map Sheet 61 - Shrewsbury (Map). SSA1395.

<03> Ordnance Survey, 1890, OS County Series 70NE, 1890 (Map). SSA9966.

<04> Ordnance Survey, 1963, OS SO48SW, 1963 (Map). SSA9975.

<05> Ordnance Survey, 1980, OS SO48SW, 1980 (Map). SSA9976.

<06> Gathercole E Clare, 1999/ 2002, Comments by SMR compiler in SMR database, 16/01/2004 (SMR comment). SSA20725.

<07> Trinder Barrie, 1996, The Industrial Archaeology of Shropshire, Appendix One (Monograph). SSA21923.

<08> English Heritage (Designation), 2014-08-29, Case Number: 1411854, Stokesay Castle - Advice Report (Official designation documentation). SSA27122.

Sources

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