Site Event/Activity record ECH5390 - Site Visit to Cogshall Mill

A site visit from the 13th June 2012 found ruins of red sandstone watermill foundations visible of about 3m in height and wheel pits visible. The site is overgrown with moss covering the stone work and a grass bank over the stone foundations. The stone work structure can be clearly seen from the public footpath and the prominent edge of the left of the mill building is still visible on the left hand side of the structure. Sandstone blocks are scattered from the ruins of the mill building towards the footpath. At the edge of the footpath there are 2 blocks of sandstone which are about a metre long and a block which is about half a metre long. Dry water channel leading up to the mill buildings ruins is still visible from the footpath. Arched brick bridge across the water channel with cobbles present on the paths surface. The water channel flows from the sluice, which consists of 3 equally spaced steps and 1 large and 1 small step with remains of sluice gate hanging across the sluice. Bricks and red sandstone remnants scattered across the water channel which has boundary walls on each side of the channel consisting of blocks of red sandstone.