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Horsham St Faith Mill
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c.1910
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Horsham St Faith mill was a small estate mill set beside Mill Farm, it was built of brick with a Norfolk pantiled roof. |
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The
mill and mill house c.1910
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The mill finally ceased to operate some time before the second world war and was eventually demolished when it was recognised that it had become a danger to children. By 1977, the only visible remains were two outlet channels that were set fairly wide apart and not facing in the same direction. One was kept running to provide water for cows. |
Stephen Ewing owned and worked the postmill in Horsham St Faith but lived and had his shop in the adjacent hamlet of Newton St Faith. By 1849 he had taken over the smockmill that was a few yards further up the road to the north and by 1854, he was listed as miller and baker; it could be that he had converted his shop in Newton St Faith to a bakery or he could have started a bakery on the premises of the smockmill. |
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Mill
site February 2003
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Remains
of the brick channel February 2003
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During the first world war a contingent of soldiers stationed in the area were camping in the fields opposite and during cold weather ripped out some of the wood to make fires. |
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The
mill house and farm June 1967
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Originally the water dropped 12 feet to power the mill. The 1977 owner said they used to swim and dive in the millpond when he was a boy. |
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The
headrace in June 1967
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Mill
dam 15th February 2003
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Richard Eglington, miller, farmer and owner of the smock_windmill and the watermill, died on 6th August 1866 leaving his wife Mary as executrix. |
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Richard Eglington snr was the grandson of Samuel Eglington, miller at Bawdeswell_smockmill, who was born c.1709 and married Sarah Humphreys on 2nd October 1844 at St Mary's, Reepham. They had 2 sons John (bap. 5th Feb 1748) and Samuel (bap. 5 June 1750), John's youngest child, Richard Eglington snr, went on to become the miller at Horsham St Faith. |
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In 1866 Richard Eglington snr was working the water mill in conjunction with the smock_windmill that stood to the north west, next to what was then the workhouse and where the St Faith's crematorium was later built. |
I have been researching my family tree because I remembered so much my Grandfather told me about living in Horsham St Faiths when a boy and the memories he had of the mill there! My Grandfather was the grandson of Richard Eglington Jnr 1834-1908 Miller at St Faiths and I believe Stoke_Holy_Cross. His Father was Arthur. When Arthur died (1894) a year after my Grandfathers birth his mother (who was born in Norfolk) married Walter William Drake the blacksmith in Horsham St Faiths and that was when he came to live there for a short time. |
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O. S. Map 1880-82 Courtesy of NLS map images |
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O. S. Map 1881 Courtesy of NLS map images |
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O.S. Map 2005 Image reproduced under licence from Ordnance Survey |
Kelly's 1900: William C. Eglington, shopkeeper |
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1325: Arable
land, pasture, watermill and mill sold for £24-7s-0d
White's 1845: Richard Eglington snr
Kelly's 1854: Richard Eglington, miller, farmer & baker
White's 1864: Richard Eglington snr, miller
White's 1883: Richard Eglington, miller & shopkeeper |
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