Woodland Mill, Cornwall

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This is my first report on here, hopefully I have done everything right

There is virtually no history which i have been able to find on this mill, except that it was first recorded in 1813 and was a water-powered flour and grist mill. The cast iron wheel, formally with wooden spokes and hub was built by Oatey and Martyn, Wadebridge.
I visited this place in Autumn last year and absolutely loved it. Its located in the bottom of a beautiful wooded valley, making the building very atmospheric. There is a single house near by and part of the ground floor seems to be used to store fencing materials. The exterior of the mill is nice enough but the real treasure is the interior, complete with all its original machinery which clearly hasn't worked for many decades.
This was my first explore with my Nikon D600 which I unfortunately didn't know how to use at the time so my interior photos aren't the best.


42794735770_fd4725bf52_o.jpgWoodland Mill 1 by Terminal Decline, on Flickr

43695578275_7867ca634f_o.jpgWoodland Mill 2 by Terminal Decline, on Flickr

42794735420_c7a5504267_o.jpgWoodland Mill 3 by Terminal Decline, on Flickr

43695577915_50629984d5_o.jpgWoodland Mill 4 by Terminal Decline, on Flickr

42794734950_815d63e8b4_o.jpgWoodland Mill 5 by Terminal Decline, on Flickr

42794735130_82b9f7004e_o.jpgWoodland Mill 6 by Terminal Decline, on Flickr

43695577575_786bd39a41_o.jpgWoodland Mill 7 by Terminal Decline, on Flickr

43695577315_471223d3c1_o.jpgWoodland Mill 8 by Terminal Decline, on Flickr

44605619711_618bd8e0f5_o.jpgWoodland Mill 9 by Terminal Decline, on Flickr


Thanks for looking
 
Brilliant stuff.will we be getting your other fantastic report I saw.you can do it all in one block as well on here
 
A very nice set and there ain't nothing wrong with your interior images (I speak as a professional photographer in my working days). They clearly show how the interior mechanism worked and the huge size of the individual parts that were required to take the full force of the water when the mill race was in full spate. Just one thing - why spoil such brilliant images by sticking such an obtrusive 'watermark' in the frame? Fortunately I could view the images by scrolling down and hiding the obtrusion without loosing the sense of the image!
 

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