Middle Mill

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Middle Mill
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Village Centre, Middle Mill
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Middle Mill
Location within Pembrokeshire
OS grid reference SM806258
Community
  • Solva
Principal area
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police Dyfed-Powys
Fire Mid and West Wales
Ambulance Welsh
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UK
Wales
Pembrokeshire
51°53′17″N5°11′21″W / 51.88806°N 5.18917°W / 51.88806; -5.18917

Middle Mill (Welsh: Felinganol) is a small settlement on the River Solva in the parish of Whitchurch, Pembrokeshire, Wales, approximately 1 mile upstream from the coastal village of Solva.

Buildings and amenities

The settlement is centred on the water mill with its iron overshot millwheel. [1] A mill in this location appears on a 1760 map, though the current mill dates to 1781. It is Grade II listed. [1]

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Bridge at the River Solva at Middle Mill

A three-arch stone road bridge crosses the river nearby, also Grade II listed and possibly dating back to the late 18th-century (one of its arches is over the mill leat). [2]

There is also a Baptist chapel, originating in the 18th-century, though the existing building dates from 1833. [3]

A commercial woollen mill is in operation in buildings behind the water mill, producing woven goods but currently specialising in making stair carpets. [4] It made a carpet for the Carmarthenshire residence of Charles, Prince of Wales. [4] Now called Solva Woollen Mill, it was originally opened in January 1907 and is the oldest working woollen mill in Pembrokeshire. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 "The Corn Mill, Felinganol/Middle Mill, Solva". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Middle Mill Bridge, Felinganol/Middle Mill". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  3. ↑ Lloyd, Thomas; Orbach, Julian; Scourfield, Robert (2004), Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire, Yale University Press, p. 286, ISBN   0-300-10178-3
  4. 1 2 Coleman-Phillips, Ceri (29 October 2014). "Woollen mills weave their way to success". Western Telegraph. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "Welcome to Solva Woollen Mill". Solva Woollen Mill. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
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