Site of post-medieval mill, 'Black Notley Watermill', The Street (EHER 46230)

Now destroyed. The site of a watermill, demolished in around 1930, and associated structures. It probably replaced an earlier late medieval/early post-medieval mill.

There is a mention of a corn mill in documents dating to 1668 (ERO D/DS 501/7) and in 1709 the mill is in the possession of John Mott (ERO Q/SR 540/1). This mill or mills must have been destroyed or burnt down as the mill present on the first edition OS dates from the late 18th/early 19th century. Photo held at the record office Mint Binders. A corn mill is recorded on the Chapman and Andre map of 1777 along a tributary of the River Brain. The mill and possibly associated buildings and structures are clearly depicted on the 1st to 3rd OS maps. Benham mentions that the mill stood near the Reindeer Inn with J. and W. Ridley, Butcher, Joseph Cooper, Henry Chopping and Son and A.T. Legerton among its 19th century millers. The mill is remembered used as a garage till it was pulled down just before the Second World War, and now even its pond has disappeared under modern housing. The Reindeer Inn still locates the place where the mill was fed from its pool across the road. <1>