When I visited Shropshire and Worcstershire last summer, I went to Daniel's Mill. Daniel's Mill is located near the town of Bridgnorth in Shropshire where I stayed for two nights. The mill is the largest working waterwheel mill still working in England. It has been restored and is open for tours, and our tour guide was a friendly man whose ancestors owned and worked the mill, making it in the ownership of the same family for over 250 years. He showed us some photographs of his family and also told us about the roles and responsibilites of working in the mill. He was a wealth of knowledge in the technology of the mill.
We were shown the office or family room where we saw some old photographs, and the first room contained the little shop with some items for sale, including flour created in the working mill. We were told about the name of Daniel's Mill (Dunnings Mill) too. This mill was closed in the late 1950s but reopened to the public in the mid-2000s and is a site of interest particularly as the mill is a working one and helps educate people about industry, which we take for granted today.
The Severn Valley Railway operates via the viaduct next to the mill, and we saw a couple of trains go past on our visit.
We checked out the offices and comfortable rooms on the ground floor.
And we then were led downstairs to see the other rooms which allowed for the operating of the mill, and we were showed how the machinery worked. There were three floors that we covered and down into the lowest room, where we could go out of a back door and see the water mill. We also watched how the water wheel turned.
I recommend visitors in the area to enjoy visiting this mill and this fascinating working piece of hisctory which can be seen with a tour guide. If you're lucky, you will get the current owner of the mill whose family owned the mill for over 250 years.
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