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From 1868 O/S Plan II/11 - NX 379012 described as Corn Mill - there was a large dam south of the mill |
T A Brew, in a discussion re threshing
mills states "At the Lhen Mill, Andreas, we find the threshing
mill driven off the outer end of the waterwheel axle; the wheel hung
situated between the corn mill building and the threshing mill building"
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John Quine writing in 1896 describes the mill setting:
A line of sand dunes extends along the N,W. coast of Jurby and Andreas, clothed with turf and tufts of bent that scarce save the sandy soil from the abrasion of the sea winds. By a gap in the dunes the Lhen finds exit to the sea. On the slopes of the gap is a scattered hamlet. The coast road on the ridge of the dunes dips at the gap to cross the river, by a grey and lichen-crusted bridge. Above the bridge is a mill, with mill dust on windows and doors, and ferns dripping moist in the wheel pit and on the mill wall. It is a place with a modest air of antiquity. Four centuries ago Gilbert McHelly, the miller of Lanmore, and tenant of the fresh water fishery in the Lhen river, was also coroner of the shearing of Ayre. The rent of his mill was 20s, equal to that of a quarter-land farm ; and he paid for the privileged office of coroner the sum of 60s.
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