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All water powered sites required a by-pass route to divert the water from going over the waterwheel when this was necessary. Such occasions were in times of flood and when maintenance work was required on the wheel. Thomas Tippetts' mill (known as New Mills) Dursley was a very large enterprise in the early 19th century. Today almost nothing of the industrial buildings remain above ground. In its approach to New Mills the River Ewelme runs in the leat parallel but above the valley bottom near the modern Yellow Hundred housing estate. Just before it enters the garden of the Kinver Grange Nursing Home which now occupies the mill site the stream is diverted as shown in the picture (ST 762 980). The stream drops down to the valley bottom and a little lower down is culverted to pass under the road to Ferney Hill and The Chestal. Map © GSIA

New Mills (Kinver Grange) - Stream Bypass

All water powered sites required a by-pass route to divert the water from going over the waterwheel when this was necessary. Such occasions were in times of flood and when maintenance work was required on the wheel.

Thomas Tippetts' mill (known as New Mills) Dursley was a very large enterprise in the early 19th century. Today almost nothing of the industrial buildings remain above ground. In its approach to New Mills the River Ewelme runs in the leat parallel but above the valley bottom near the modern Yellow Hundred housing estate. Just before it enters the garden of the Kinver Grange Nursing Home which now occupies the mill site the stream is diverted as shown in the picture (ST 762 980). The stream drops down to the valley bottom and a little lower down is culverted to pass under the road to Ferney Hill and The Chestal.

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