Monument record 0519300000 - MOORHOUSE FARM

Summary

Nineteenth century water wheel at Moorhouse Farm

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Type and Period (2)

  • WATER WHEEL (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • WATER PUMP (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Waterwheel, used to drive swede & chaff cutters, generator & water pump (B3).
Located at NGR (B4).
In a barn. Mill race runs to rear of barn, turns E under brick wheelhouse & rejoins main stream below sluice gate (B1).
Machinery, except wheel, removed to the Science Museum on 9th September 1955. Dated to c.1820 (B3).
Buildings report held at NMR (B7).

Sources (7)

  • <1>SBC26723 Unpublished document: Stanley Freese. 1946. MS. NOTES.
  • <2>SBC11621 Unpublished document: 1982. PATTERSON MR ANDREW, CURATOR, AGRICULTURAL COLLECTION, SCIENCE MUSEUM LONDON, JUNE 1982 LETTER (FILED).
  • <3>SBC7925 Unpublished document: 1982. LIPSCOMB MRS DOROTHY (FORMER OWNER OF FARM) JULY/AUG 1982 LETTER, FILED.
  • <4>SBC4548 Verbal communication: Joan Elding. 1982. ELDING MISS J B H (CMAG) PERS COMM 1982.
  • <5>SBC4001 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: DISTRICT OF SOUTH BUCKS.
  • <6>SBC20011 Unpublished document: Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd. 2001. Chilterns Chalk Streams Project: Chess & Misbourne Valleys - Archaeological Assessment.
  • <7>SBC23358 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2006. NMR Buildings Reports. BF029772.

Location

Grid reference TQ 02600 87540 (point)
Civil Parish DENHAM, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jan 4 2024 1:57PM

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