Site of medieval mill, The Mount, Shalford Green (EHER 6248)

The Mount is an artificial earthen bank extending halfway across a narrow valley.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: The Mount (NAT). <1> The Mount is an artificial bank extending half way across a narrow valley. <2> Wind mill shown on the other side of the road on Chapman and Andre map (see EHER 6249). <3> 1950. Field visit. The OS card of 1950 gives directions as 3-4m wide with a height in the middle of the valley of about 3m. The bank "apparently continued on the west side of the stream but has been much spread and has assumed a fairly natural contour". The bank seemed to be the remains of a dam-probably a mill. Local enquiries by the OS found little information except "that the house next to the 'Victoria' was an old malting house which suggests a connection with a mill". Other indications of a mill come from the names of the field. <4> April 1975. Field survey. The Mount (name confirmed) comprised the remains of a pond bay which measures 56.0m long by 18.0m wide and 3.2m high. It is breached in the centre and partially dug away on the western side. The meadow up-stream of the bay centred TL 71082690 was called "Shalford Pond" in 1734 <5> and "Millers Moor" about 1840 <6>. The feature is probably the site of a corn mill. Published survey (25") revised. Site Assessment = Some tree growth in a breech in the bay (dam). <7> <8> Plan of bank - presumably a tracing from the OS plan. <9>