Carew Tidal Mill or French Mill on the Carew river is a corn mill powered by tidal water Carew Pembrokeshire West Wales UK GB Europe


Carew Tidal Mill is the only restored tidal mill in Wales. The origins of the mill are undocumented but evidence suggests that a mill was in existence on the site by 1542. It is often called the "French Mill" and this may have arisen from its use of French burrstone millstones. Causeway walls and floodgates were restored by Sir John Carew in about 1615. One of the mill wheels is dated 1801. Use of the mill ended in 1937 and the building became is a corn mill in Pembrokeshire, Wales, powered by tidal water


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Location: Carew West Wales UK
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