Barcombe Mills, Barcombe

A water-powered button mill and corn mill in the historic county of Sussex, England.

Destroyed in a huge fire in 1939, latterly was a turbine driven button mill. The mill stones that feature in old pictures are still near by. This mill had two breastshot waterwheels.

Full details

Power source	Water
Mill type	Watermill
River	Ouse
Mill function	Button mill, Corn mill
Archive ID	8387
Location	Barcombe
Historic county	Sussex
Country	England, United Kingdom
NGR	TQ 43295 14852
Latitude/longitude	50.91540000, 0.03710000

Location

Gallery

References

Anthony Bryan, Mills Research Group Database
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, Sussex LIV (1878)
Stidder, Derek & Colin Smith, Watermills of Sussex: Volume 1 - East Sussex (Baron, 1997), p. 36

Contributors

Colin Smith, May/September 2016

Related publications in the library

Wind and water mills in and around Uckfield

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