Durweston Mill

This former mill is now a building of apartments. If you run by here, you'll see a weir, a bridge, and a large millpond.

Lovely mill house very close to stourpaine which has a brilliant pub called the white horse 🍻

Using the power of moving water to drive a mill wheel is an ancient invention of the human spirit of discovery, the origins of which can be traced back to times long past. Thanks to such a construction, a watercourse - natural or artificial - could simply replace human or animal muscle power with the power of the natural elements, for example to grind grain into corn or to press oil from fruit.There are essentially two different ways of driving watermills:* Either the flowing water simply hits the blades of the water wheel from below to set it in motion; or
* the water is guided - usually through a so-called "mill channel" - above the wheel and falls onto the blades; this type of construction is more efficient due to natural gravity.