Place Mill, Christchurch, Dorset

I stood on an old bridge crossing the mill stream to see below the Mill Pool and Place Mill.
Place Mill is located between the River Avon and River Stour, sitting on the Town Quay. It takes the supply water from the River Avon via it’s mill race and flows, after powering the water wheel, into the River Stour.
This Mill is mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086 with a value of thirty shillings.

There have been various additions to the building over the centuries, Medieval stone work, Tudor and 18th century brick work. It was also a monastic corn mill, later also used for fulling cloth for the wool trade.
It finished it’s intended working life of fulling cloth and corn grinding in 1908.
The Mill has found a use over recent years as an art gallery and a workshop for an artist during the summer months, with the added attraction of a working water mill.
Inside the building are still the mill wheel, wooden gears and mill stones.


I am grateful to the website of The Christchurch History Society for some of the information