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"I didn't come here to sit and ponder...."
So starts a rude ditty. This is the miller's toilet at Bishops Lydiard watermill. It sits over the tail race and this mannequin can be observed going about its business via a well placed mirror.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 15 Aug 2010
0.04 miles
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Bishops Lydeard Watermill
The mill is on the left and the rather fine mill house is on the right. This is an excellent site and includes a little museum of local industries depicted by mannequins.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 15 Aug 2010
0.04 miles
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Bishops Lydeard Watermill
This shows the overshot waterwheel and the bypass arrangement. The wooden structure is the miller's privy with discharge straight into the tail race.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 15 Aug 2010
0.04 miles
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White ducks and a duck crossing, Bishops Lydeard Mill
The ducks are on the Mill Lane side of Bishops Lydeard Mill. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2503366
The yellow diamond-shaped notice on the bridge shows DUCK CROSSING.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 11 Sep 2012
0.04 miles
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Entrance to Bishops Lydeard Mill
The entrance to the mill http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2503366 is from Mill Lane.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 11 Sep 2012
0.04 miles
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Bishops Lydeard Mill - gear room
This shows the hurst framing with pitwheel and great spur wheel visible. There are multiple grain shoots in new wood and a pair of plastic millers.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 15 Aug 2010
0.04 miles
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Bishops Lydeard Mill - stone floor
In the background is an oat clipper and grain cleaner. To the left of centre is a set of millstones with some modern furniture on top of the tun. The crown wheels and its guarding are in the centre or thereabouts.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 15 Aug 2010
0.04 miles
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Bishops Lydeard Mill - machinery
Booth's patent Victor oat clipper and grain cleaner.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 15 Aug 2010
0.04 miles
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Bishops Lydeard Mill - cooper display
This mill museum has several cameos of different artisan skills and this one illustrates the art of the cooper - wooden barrel maker (for anyone who hasn't heard of this craft skill).
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 15 Aug 2010
0.04 miles
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Bishops Lydeard : Hither Mead
A road linking several small residential roads in the Bishops Lydeard suburbs.
Image: © Lewis Clarke
Taken: 21 Dec 2014
0.05 miles