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Mill:

Chalfont St Peter Mill, Chalfont St Peter

A water-powered corn mill and silk mill in the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England.

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There was a mill at Chalfont St Peter at Domesday. Thomas Price was the miller in1689; Thomas Belch in 1699; John Haarding in 1798. It appears to have been used as a silk mill in 1822 and a fulling mill in 1842, but after a further period working as a corn mill, it fell into disuse and only its foundations were evident by the 1930s.

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Power source Water
Mill type Watermill
River Misbourne
Mill function Corn mill, Silk mill
Archive ID 11721
Location Chalfont St Peter
Historic county Buckinghamshire
Country England, United Kingdom
NGR TQ 001 910
Latitude/longitude 51.60797200, -0.55223500

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References

  • Farley, Michael, County Museum Archaeological Group, "Buckinghamshire Watermills" (Records of Bucks, 24, 1982)
  • Farley, Michael, Edward Legg and James Venn (Ed), The Watermills of Buckinghamshire: A 1930s account by Stanley Freese with original photographs (Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, 2007)

 

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