Mill Dam
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Mill Dam
Image: © Graham Horn Taken: 5 Jun 2010
Looking from one of the upstairs windows on Palace House across Mill Dam, the dammed River Beaulieu. Water would have been let in at high tide then the sluices closed off as the tide fell, thus maintaining a head of water for milling on an otherwise slow flowing river.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.81987
Longitude
-1.454825