Scarlet's Mill, Cowden
A water-powered corn mill in the historic county of Kent, England.
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Scarlet's Mill worked until c 1905 and was a small white brick and weatherboard building, with two pairs of stones and an oat crusher, driven by an outside iron 8' overshot wheel. It remained complete until c 1956 when the banks of the millpond broke and took the mill away with them. Today some of the retaining walls survive together with the pipe for the overshot wheel. This is also a very important furnace site; excavation here revealed part of the original waterwheel.
This mill had an overshot waterwheel.
Full details
| Alternative names | Scarletts Mill, Upper Furnace |
| Power source | Water |
| Mill type | Watermill |
| River | Kent Water |
| Mill function | Corn mill |
| Archive ID | 8392 |
| Location | Cowden, Sevenoaks |
| Historic county | Kent |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| NGR | TQ 444 401 |
| Latitude/longitude | 51.14196300, 0.06283134 |
Location
References
- Alan Stoyel, Mills Archive Foundation Trustee
- Stidder, Derek & Colin Smith, Watermills of Sussex: Volume 1 - East Sussex (Baron, 1997), p. 119
Contributors
Rob Cumming
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