Millstone, Cheddleton Flint Mill - Cheddleton, Staffordshire.
N 53° 04.248 W 002° 02.593
30U E 564104 N 5880574
This millstone is located at Cheddleton Flint Mill, a Grade II* listed building, situated along the Caldon Canal at Cheddleton.
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Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/19/2017
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The Cheddleton Flint Mill is a grinding watermill previously used for supplying the pottery industry further along the canal in Stoke-on-Trent.
It is a museum open to the public free of charge, and has been preserved by the Cheddleton Flint Mill Industrial Heritage Trust. with help from the Heritage Lottery Fund. (
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The millstone is on display outside one of the buildings and is freely accessible. An information plaque on the wall reads as follows;
GRINDING STONE
Function: ground flint at a watermill at Cookshill Farm, near Weston Coyney. Originally, it was a corn - grinding stone.
Material: millstone grit
Date: circa 1890
Cookshill Mill Farm: (
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