Monument record 1749/1 - Tilstone Fearnall Mill

A three storey brick building which had two waterwheels, both said to be high breast, now used by the local Scouts. The wheels and machinery were removed in about 1930. The mill adjoins the lock on the Shropshire Union Canal. The original brook-fed pond was apparently insufficient for two wheels, so a leat was cut from the River Gowy, and turned round the bank and up the valley to the mill pool. The tailrace follows the canal and returns to the river. Marked as 'The Mill' on Bryant. 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.