Since 1066, there's been a water mill at Arundel, a market town in a steep vale of the River Arun of the South Downs, West Sussex, England. Its site was at Swanbourne, north of the town, where an important mill was recorded between 1272 and the mid 19th century. John Home described as miller and baker in 1787 leased Swanbourne mill from the dukes of Norfolk. The mill was depicted by John Constable in his last painting in 1837, when it was a large timber-framed structure, a few years before it was demolished in the early 1840s.

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Location: Arundel, UK
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