Monument record 0284300000 - MILL FARM, BEACHAMPTON

Summary

Site of medieval to post-medieval watermill.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Map

Type and Period (1)

  • WATERMILL (11th Century to 18th Century - 1000 AD to 1799 AD)

Description

The Domesday Book notes that in Beachampton (in Rowley Hundred) Hugh holds 5 hides of lands from Walter Giffard as one manor. The holding consists of land for 5 ploughs; in lordship 2. 5 villagers with 9 smallholders have 3 ploughs; 1 slave; 1 mill at 10s, meadow for 2 ploughs. Total value £4; when acquired 30s; before 1066 £4 10s. Alric, King Edward's man and thane, had held this manor (B7).
2 WATERMILLS MENTIONED 1285, 1593. WATERMILL CALLED UPPER MILNE CONVEYED WITH MANOR 1609 (B4).
RBT THE MILLER OF BEACHAMPTON MENTIONED C1250 (B5).
1 WATERMILLER MENTIONED 1798 (B2).
MAP 1788 MARKS WATERMILL AT APPROX NGR (B1).
OS C1814 MARKS BEACHAMPTON MILL FARM BUT NO WATERMILL, AT APPROX NGR (B3).
POSSIBLE MILL LEAT & ASSOCIATED FEATURES VISIBLE ON AP (B6).
Detailed historical notes and 1930s condition. Mill Farm still existed in 2006 (B8).

Sources (8)

  • <1>SBC6714 Map: Thomas Jefferys. 1770. [Map of] The County of Buckingham. Printed map. Linen. 1 inch:1 mile.
  • <2>SBC12425 Bibliographic reference: POSSE COMMITATUS 1798 (MS AT BRO, REF L/P/15&16).
  • <3>SBC10527 Map: OS C1814 2IN DRAFT MAP.
  • <4>SBC15856 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 4 P151.
  • <5>SBC6811 Bibliographic reference: JENKINS JG (ED) 1945 CARTULARY OF SNELSHALL PRIORY IN BUCKSRECORDSOC"9P45(CHARTER125)".
  • <6>SBC10272 Verbal communication: Andrew Pike (BCM). INFORMATION FROM OS 1880/85 6 INCH MAP, 1ST & SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS AND AIR PHOTO NMR SP7738/1/65 (14 AUG 1975).
  • <7>SBC4271 Bibliographic reference: John Morris (ed). 1978. Domesday Book: Buckinghamshire. 14, 31:.
  • <8>SBC23045 Bibliographic reference: Michael Farley, Edward Legg and James Venn (eds). 2007. The Watermills of Buckinghamshire: A 1930s account by Stanley Freese with original photographs. pp22-23.

Location

Grid reference SP 775 380 (point)
Civil Parish BEACHAMPTON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Nov 2 2010 11:46AM

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