Bungay former watermill

Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 28 Apr 2021

Formerly known as Bardolph's Mill, a succession of mills have been built on this site; this building is of Victorian origin. Bungay is the head of navigation for the River Waveney. When the previous mill was working as a paper mill, it burnt down and the site was then bought by later miller Charles Marston's father, who rebuilt it in the 1870s. He fitted a roller plant in the 1890s, before the mill again caught fire and burned down again about 1900. The Marstons then took over Earsham mill for flour production and rebuilt Bungay mill as a provender mill in 1902. The new mill was constructed of weatherboard and brick with a corrugated iron roof. It is unusual because of the extended lucum which extended over the dock for loading the barges. In the 1960s the watercourse adjacent to the mill building was filled in and grassed over and converted into a timber store. In 2003 it became a consultancy and training centre and has since been converted into residential accommodation.

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