Otterton Mill

On this rather grey day we went for a walk along the River Otter to Otterton Mill.  There has been a working mill at Otterton since at least Norman times, when King William the Conqueror granted all the local land hereabouts to the abbots of St Michel of Normandy. The earliest written record of the mill is in the Domesday survey in 1068, which confirmed its status as one of the largest and most productive of the seventy mills in Devon.  

The mill is still producing flour and sells flour and bread as well as teas and lunches in the cafe.  This photo shows one of two French burr stones purchased by John Uglow on which he inscribed rhyming dedications ("This stone worked the first time, tis true, May 1st, 1862").