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The 13ft diameter 8ft wide water wheel is made of metal and runs on a large diameter wooden shaft. The wheel is of the low breast shot type and it transfers the river flow into useable energy to power the mill machinery.
The water wheel turns more slowly than required to run the line shafting so a set of gear wheels is housed between the wheel and the workshop. The largest diameter
The water wheel turns more slowly than required to run the line shafting so a set of gear wheels is housed between the wheel and the workshop. The largest diameter
wheel sits in a pit and its wooden teeth have recently been replaced.
Although the tail race still exists, the leat was filled in some years ago and visitors must imagine the river Evenlode running beneath the Mill
Although the tail race still exists, the leat was filled in some years ago and visitors must imagine the river Evenlode running beneath the Mill
building. A bypass sluice was used to control the river flow through the water wheel.
Today the wheel turns on open days by water being pumped into the buckets from the tail race.
Today the wheel turns on open days by water being pumped into the buckets from the tail race.
One of the leat sluices long decayed
Replacing the pit wheel wooden teeth
Click on the right to see a video clip of the waterwheel and line shaft gearing in action.