Derek (from a 700 year old family of Cornish millers) and Valerie Hosken bouight Mill farm with a mill which could be restored. Now Blacklands Mill in Wiltshire is fully operational. A monastic document records Blacklands Mill from 1289. Local millwright, Malcolm Cooper, can help to restore water wheels and recut mill stones.
"Old mills back on stream - You too can achieve a rural idyll"
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- Dates of Creation21 January 1994
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- Physical Description1 press cutting
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