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Working waterwheel detail, Lower Mill, Polegate

HESS catalogue #2266. "The iron overshot here measures 14 feet by 6 and is on a round oak shaft. It is in good condition and is still used." He also named it 'Lower Mill', which Stidder and Smith (vol.1 p.137) places in Polegate !!

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Wood's Mill, Small Dole

HESS catalogue #2004. "It was built in 1712 and enlarged 1820. Machinery now cleared out, but wheel is used for generating."

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Wheel, watermill, Shermanbury

HESS catalogue #2124. "Shermanbury Mill. Two wheels at Shermanbury. This breast wheel is on east side, is 13 feet diameter and 10ft 8ins wide."

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Waterwheels, Titchfield Mill, Titchfield

HESS catalogue #2348. The iron breastshot waterwheels on iron shafts are both 14ft in diameter by 5ft wide and were powered by the embanked River Meon .

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Waterwheel, watermill, Lurgashall

HESS catalogue #2105. "Lurgashall Mill. Lurgashall Mill had two overshots, one behind the other. One remains and is probably the work of R Chorley, of Midhurst."

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

Waterwheel, watermill, Bodiam

HESS catalogue #2054. "The small mill at Bodiam which Edward Collins worked for over fifty years is now demolished. Only the wheel and the mill house remain."

Simmons, Herbert Edward Sydney (1901-1973), mill researcher

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