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Markeaton Mill

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Markeaton Mill, Google Satellite view.

Markeaton Mill.

In the Domesday (1086) entry for Markeaton there was a mill which would have been there before the Normans arrived. The last positive record of a mill there is 1760 (see map.) and it seems to have been removed c 1800 so this was an industrial site for at least 900 years. It was gone by 1836 when the first 1” OS map was published. On the aerial photo the light mark running diagonally to the right is the mill bridge dated 1800, presumably when it was refurbished. The mill stood immediately to the left in the trees and was fed by an embanked leat from the Markeaton Brook. The wheel pit, in restored form, exists with the wheel bearer stone still in situ although the site has for over 70 years been an ornamental rockery with a waterfall.

For more information see “A History of Markeaton and Mackworth” by Don Farnsworth. Breedon Books, 2006. Map (left) based on 1760 Estate Map, © Don Farnsworth.

Thanks to Don Farnsworth for kindly providing the content here. BEN