MSO7463 - Haydon Mill / Beckham Mill (Monument)

Summary

Haydon Mill, shown on the Tithe Map of 1843 and also known as Beckham Mill. Other names for the site include Bridles, Hydron, Bickham and Clicket Mill.

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Full Description

SS 961 397 Bridles [NAT] [1,2] SS 963 397. Good earthworks of a deserted farm site exist at Bridles. Possibly Medieval. [3] SS 96193979. Beckham Mill (Disused) [NAT] [4] SS 961 397. Shown and named Haydon Mills on the 1843 Tithe Map. A hollow way runs from the nearby deserted medieval site of Thorn (MSO7460, SS 964 398) down to the mill which is now roofless. [Aston does not include any site with the name Bridles in this list of deserted farmsteads on Exmoor]. [5] SS 9620 3982. Hydron, Beckham, Bickham or Clicket Mill. Possible lead off for the leat (or sluice) at SS 9629 3949 but the leat is barely traceable except just south of mill building and in the vicinity of a ruined building N of the sluice. One intact and one broken mill stone in the mill building. Last mention of a miller in 1851. Said to have been last occupied in 1926. [6] It is unclear whether Aston [3] refers to the mill or another location as the site of Bridles. On the Ordnance Survey 1 inch 1st Edition 1809 [2] the name appears to apply to the mill site, but on the OS 1:2500 1904 the name does not appear to be applied to any feature and the mill is named Beckham Mill (disused). Some remains of buildings but little identifiable except position of wheel. Leat silted and infilled. [8] The site includes a mill, millhouse and a linhay, the latter of which may have been modified to form an enclosed outbuilding. The mill house appears to have been of two phases, with the northern section perhaps used as a bakery. The mill had an overshot wheel, with the millstones on an upper floor and the machinery below. The millpond and stone launder were visible during survey, but the pond had been blocked. The mill leat was also traceable in some sections to the south. [9] Much of the site is traceable on 2018 MasterMap data. [10] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [11]

Sources/Archives (11)

  • <1> Map: Ordnance Survey. Various. Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) . 2 inch Drawing / 1802-3.
  • <2> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1809. 1" 1st edition.
  • <3> Article in serial: Aston, M.. 1978. Research in 1977: (b) Fieldwork - Somerset. Medieval Village Research Group. 25. pp 14-16. 15.
  • <4> Map: Ordnance Survey. County Series; 2nd Edition (1st Revision) 25 Inch Map. 1:2500. 47(5).
  • <5> Article in serial: Aston, M. 1983. Deserted Farms on Exmoor and the Lay subsidy of 1327 in West Somerset. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Society. 127. 95.
  • <6> Map: 1843. Luxborough Tithe Map and Apportionment.
  • <7> Article in serial: Williams, E.F.. 1978. Parish surveys in Somerset two: Luxborough. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Society. 2. 22.
  • <8> Verbal communication: Various. Various. Oral Information. D Warren, 23 November 1977.
  • <9> Article in serial: Sandover, R.. 2008. Clicket, a Co-Location of Habitation. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. 151. pp 159-164. pp 159-164.
  • <10> Map: Ordnance Survey. 2018. MasterMap.
  • <11> Digital archive: Historic England. Various. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) entry. 1044885, Extant 19 April 2022.

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Other Statuses/References

  • Exmoor National Park HER Number (now deleted): MSO11380
  • Local List Status (Unassessed)
  • National Monuments Record reference: SS 93 NE27
  • NRHE HOB UID (Pastscape): 1044885
  • Somerset SMR PRN: 33736

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SS 9620 3970 (121m by 317m)
Map sheet SS93NE
Civil Parish LUXBOROUGH, WEST SOMERSET, SOMERSET

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Record last edited

Apr 19 2022 2:07PM

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