Sluice
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Sluice
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 29 Sep 2017
This looks incontrovertibly like a sluice, and equally incontrovertibly disused. I believe that it controlled the flow of water from the lade into the barley and flour mills that stood nearby.
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Image Location
Latitude
57.273613
Longitude
-2.36912