Monument record 0402700000 - HUNTS MILL, WESTBURY

'HUNTS MILL' ON 1788-1825 MAPS (B1-3).
'HUNTS MILL' AT NGR (B4).
1 MILL IN DOMESDAY, KNOWN IN C13 AS HUNT MILL, ATTACHED TO HONOUR OF WALLINGFORD & PASSED TO PUREFOYS OF SHALSTONE (B5).
REFS IN 1740 (B6).
STONE FOUNDATIONS OF WHEELHOUSE AT NGR, LEAT & SITE OF MILL HOUSE (B7).
LEASE OF MILL C.1263 (B8).
Historical notes and condition in 1930s. Slight foundations remaining in 2006 (B9).

A post-medieval watermill leat is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located on the north bank of the River Great Ouse at the site of the former Huntsmill and centred at SP 63827 34745, a curvilinear ditch or leat about 6.5 metres wide extends about 300 metres west of the former mill. The single leat diverges into two parallel curving leats for about 105 metres at the western head end of the features, meeting the river in two places. Whilst this feature is documented on the 1st Edition OS map dated 1881 and 2nd edition OS map dated 1900, it is only shown as a single leat and it is not until the 3rd Edition OS map dated 1922 that part of a second leat above the first is depicted. It is unclear whether the second leat had been newly cut between 1900 and 1922, or whether the first two OS editions had simply not identified the presence of a second leat (10-15).