Monument record 2024/3 - Puddington Watermill

Site of watermill, 1368-9, at Puddington. Location is taken from field name 'Dam fields'. Watermills are known to have been used in Britain during Roman and Saxon times. In the Domesday survey of 1086, around 6,000 mills were recorded. In medieval times each manor that the right to have its own mill with the peasants forced to use it. A tax was payable on all corn ground and there were fines for those to tried to mill corn in their own homes using hand querns.