Kings Mill, Stamford
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King's Mill is a former watermill in Bath Row Stamford
, Lincolnshire, England
, at the bottom of the sloping road called St Peter's Vale. The building is currently divided between accommodation and the Kings Mill Centre, a day facility run by Lincolnshire County Council. There is said to have been a mill on this site at the time of the Domesday survey, and took the name King's Mill in the time of King John. The present building dates from the seventeenth century, and is a grade II listed building.
The mill stream or leat separates the town from the Meadows at Bath Row, rejoining the River Welland
just before the town bridge. The embankment for the upper reaches of the mill stream forms the Melancholy walk overlooking the upper meadows, where cattle are still sometimes grazed. The weir and sluice for the leat were replaced when the large pumping station for Rutland Water
was built near the modern A1 bridge over the Welland. The line of the leat follow part of the line of the town walls.
Stamford, Lincolnshire
Stamford is a town and civil parish within the South Kesteven district of the county of Lincolnshire, England. It is approximately to the north of London, on the east side of the A1 road to York and Edinburgh and on the River Welland...
, Lincolnshire, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, at the bottom of the sloping road called St Peter's Vale. The building is currently divided between accommodation and the Kings Mill Centre, a day facility run by Lincolnshire County Council. There is said to have been a mill on this site at the time of the Domesday survey, and took the name King's Mill in the time of King John. The present building dates from the seventeenth century, and is a grade II listed building.
The mill stream or leat separates the town from the Meadows at Bath Row, rejoining the River Welland
River Welland
The River Welland is a river in the east of England, some long. It rises in the Hothorpe Hills, at Sibbertoft in Northamptonshire, then flows generally northeast to Market Harborough, Stamford and Spalding, to reach The Wash near Fosdyke. For much of its length it forms the county boundary between...
just before the town bridge. The embankment for the upper reaches of the mill stream forms the Melancholy walk overlooking the upper meadows, where cattle are still sometimes grazed. The weir and sluice for the leat were replaced when the large pumping station for Rutland Water
Rutland Water
Rutland Water is Anglian Water's drinking water reservoir in the county of Rutland, England, just east of the county town Oakham. It was known as Empingham Reservoir during its construction and until its official opening in 1976. The centre of its dam is at British national grid reference...
was built near the modern A1 bridge over the Welland. The line of the leat follow part of the line of the town walls.