Heath Mill Pu;borough

[Ringrose]

In the 1871 census my gggrandfather Charles F Clarke is a Miller at Heath mill  near Pulborough. Does anyone know where this mill is and if it still stands?
Would appreciate any help.
Rongrose

[Stovepipe]

Rongrose,

The Mills Archive site has data on a Pulborough mill, but it's called "Old Place Mill".  A document dated 2003 reports it still standing as a house conversion.

A few of the millers are named, not your ancestor though.

Here's the link - you'll probably have to register to see the data.

http://www.millsarchive.com/index.aspx

HTH,
Stovepipe

[suey]

Hello Rongrose - I'm going back into my dim and distant memory here...bear with me...

I had a look at the census pages and one of the next addresses is Small Bar Dick, I'm fairly certain this is now Small Beer Dike Farm or something similar.  I also looked at the description for the enumerators walk and Batts is mentioned as is Heath Mill and also Nutbourne Mill...so we can discount Nutbourne Mill.

I looked at the Sussex Mills website and I know for certain that at least one Watermill that I know of is not on that website soooo....going back to memory I am sure there was an old, small watermill somewhere up near the end of Batts Lane.

We used to walk through Pulborough, up Batts Lane and across the fields to the Rising Sun Pub at Nutbourne. The mill workings had gone but the house was still there, also from memory I think there was a small stream that ran alongside.

Look at Google Maps, put in Pulborough and get the larger image up.
you will see Pulborough and Nutbourne - in-between there is a small road, triangular shaped, click on that twice and you will see Batts Lane and Nutbourne - the sat. image is interesting too.

You might try and contact the Sussex Mills Group, they may have a someone who could investigate.

Hope this helps
Suey

[toni*]

http://www.theargus.co.uk/whatson/walks/westsussex/pulboroughcircular/


the above link should give you an idea of the area,

[Stovepipe]

OK, so Heath Mill is closer to West Chiltington than Pulborough and cannot be identified with Old Place.

It's location is still marked on the OS map, but whether that means the mill is standing or just the cottages I don't know.

Here's the map link:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=507500&y=117500&z=3&sv=heath+mill&st=3&tl=Heath+Mill,+West+Sussex+&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf

The Mills Archive site has no information on any watermill at West Chiltington that I could find.

Stovepipe

[Ringrose]

Thank you to everyone for all your help and suggestions. Hopefully I will get down to Pulborough and be able to explore th area sometime this year.

Ringrose

[anne77]

Hi

There is a page about West Chiltington on the Sussex Coast website  http://www.sussexcoast.co.uk/west-chiltington/ and information about a  mill at Nutbourne on http://www.nutbourne.org.uk/houses/wheelhouse/wheelhouse.php which might be of interest to you.

Anne

[Ringrose]

Thanks for those web sites which I have looked at and sent an e-mail.
Ringrose

[gwyilliams]

I noticed your query about Heath Mill, in Nutbourne Sx. It is Located at the end of the village, turn Right (east) at the bottom of the hill on Gay Street,going North to North Heath.  When I lived in that area the mill had a local Bakery operating out of it. That was around 1964.

I also remember the Olde Place Mill Pond and Water mill in Pulborough, on Toat hill Road.  The Mill was converted into a single family dwelling, I worked on that convertion during my apprenticeship.  The water from the pond still runs under the lane from the pond and cascades down between two section of the building. The lane continues on becoming a footpath up to Codmore Hill Farm.

Hope this will help.
Robert Williams