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Clifford Close, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ12 3HE

Higher Mills is a listed building https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1334256?section=official-list-entry . From Historic England maps, the leat (flowing towards the camera and sometimes referred to as Fairwater) appears to be the diverting of a brook that rises from a spring at Rydon to the north.

Higher Mills is a listed building: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1334256?section=official-list-entry Two young men who were working in the house told me that the building had been a corn mill, later a butcher's shop. There was a natural spring underneath the building (which I don't believe, because the mill was powered by a leat). There had been a fire and it was being refurbished. They added with some pride "It's all new now."

Higher Mills is a listed building: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1334256?section=official-list-entry Two young men who were working in the house told me that the building had been a corn mill, later a butcher's shop. There was a natural spring underneath the building (hard to believe because the mill was powered by a leat). There had been a fire and it was being refurbished. They added with some pride "It's all new now."

By Crossley Moor Road, with a path passing a dog bin and a bench. "The Fairwater Leat, fed by the springs at Rydon, superseded the Honeywell Spring as the established water supply in the Middle Ages and also supplied the power for three mills" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsteignton .

From Historic England maps, the leat (flowing towards the camera and sometimes referred to as Fairwater) appears to be the diverting of a brook that rises from a spring at Rydon to the north. There is a property up the road labelled Higher Mills, a listed building.

Some maps show a mill leat running down the hill, parallel to Golvers Hill Road. It would appear to be the diversion of a stream originating on Little Haldon that eventually joins the River Teign below the village.

The side extension over the Mill Leat, referred to in Image, is seen here from the north. Brookside is a listed building https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1334277?section=official-list-entry . From Historic England maps, the leat (sometimes called Fairwater) appears to be the diverting of a brook that rises from a spring at Rydon to the north.

This is marked on the map as a small area of woodland but it's woodland no longer.

Historic England says "probably 18th- or early 19th century". The brook referred to in the name is actually a mill leat. It is channelled along Crossley Moor Road (left) towards (south) and beneath the camera. The listed building description points out an extension over the leat at the west (near) end of the building https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1334277?section=official-list-entry The list entry refers once to Glovers Hill Road: possibly a typo for 'Golvers' but persuasive and convincing nevertheless.