Water mill at Veules-les-Roses Normandy France
The picturesque town of Veules-les-Roses is enchanting with small cobbled streets lined with pretty cottages. It is famous for having France's shortest river, which meanders gently through the town and one can follow it's course via a mapped walk, out to the sea. The Veules which flows into the English Channel, is the coastal river course with the least developed in France with a length of only 1195 meters. It is from the seventeenth century that the inhabitants Veules (also called Veules-en-Caux until 1897) used a little water for economic purposes. A dozen mills were built (one every 100 meters) to grind wheat and rapeseed were extracted with the oil, to press the flax providing the raw material for workshops weavers From the thirteenth century, there were, at the mouth of the Veules, a mill that operated from Wednesday through a closed basin through a door at high tide and we opened at ebb tide At its source, the inhabitants grew watercress, aquatic plant par excellence, marketed in Paris in the nineteenth century, the mills activity declined at the same time as the village became a resort for the Parisian intellectual milieu; Paul Meurice, Alexandre Dumas fils, Jules Michelet made frequent visits on the banks of the small river.
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Location: Veules-Les-Roses, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France
Photo credit: © David Jones / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: france, mill, normandy, river, seine-maritime, shortest, travel, veules, veules-les-roses, water, wheel
