Remains of a post-medieval mill including mill dam, and pond, east of White Notley Hall (EHER 5984)

The remains of a mill. A mill dam sits south east of White Notley Hall, holding up a large mill pond.

Mill dam south east of White Notley Hall, holding up a large mill pond. Remains of the mill survive but the mill race has been blocked. A deep ditch lies south of the pond, enclosing a large area. <1> Foundations of mill and mill wheel at TL 78501837, pond is at TL 78481835. The dam is continued to the south by, apparently, a ditch with inner and outer banks. They curve round to the west, are broken by a drive and continue into a meadow where the inner bank dies out and the outer bank comes down to the meadow level further along a hedgerow. The ditch is very wide and deep in the curving section and may represent a quarry ditch for the mill dam. The whole earthwork is in fairly good condition, though much overgrown in places with brambles. A long, wide flat-bottomed hollow in the meadow seems to be artificial (it is at TL 78361828). The mill is shown on an old map in the OS Archaeology Branch Archives. The OS card has sections of the earthworks but the location of the sections is not clear. <2> <3> <4> Mill Pond (NR). Mill (NR) (Rems of) (NAT). <5> "Mill Dam, south east of White Notley Hall, a large millpond, is held up by a bank on the east side. There are still remains of the mill, though the mill race is now blocked. South of the pond is a deep ditch, 45ft. wide, which partly encloses a large area." In fairly good condition. <2> December 1975. Field survey. The pond is still water-filled but choked with reeds, and the remains of the mill are now overgrown, although an iron channel protrudes above what seems to have been the wheel well. The deep ditch noted above is probably the remains of a hollow way, a stream course and roadside scarping, although this is regarded as a moat by Mrs. Butler of White Notley Hall. <6> <7> Original HER entry merged with NRHE data transfer.