Bourne Mill: gable, chimney, and pinnacles
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Bourne Mill: gable, chimney, and pinnacles
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 5 Sep 2015
I was reminded of nothing so much as Image Date must have something to do with it - Tresham's Lodge is said to date from (about) 1594, Bourne Mill from 1591. The curiously shaped gable of the Mill looks very Dutch (hardly surprising, so close to the North Sea coast) and it has been suggested that it was built by Flemish settlers. The masonry of the gable has been 'galleted' - the mortar courses have been decorated with chips of flint - and in this evening view the little flint chips gleam in the low sun. There seems to be some agreement that the Mill was originally built as a fishing lodge - so perhaps the pond (made by damming the little River Bourne) was a fish-pond before it was made use of as a source of power.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.87696
Longitude
0.912287