Kings Mill, Stamford

Kings mill main door, Stamford

Kings Mill former watermill building.

Kings Mill from the meadows, over the millstream

King's Mill is a former watermill in Bath Row Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, at the bottom of the sloping road called St Peter's Vale. The building is currently divided between accommodation and the Kings Mill Centre, a day facility run by Lincolnshire County Council. There is said to have been a mill on this site at the time of the Domesday survey,^[1] and took the name King's Mill in the time of King John. The present building dates from the seventeenth century,^[2] and is a grade II listed building.^[3]

The mill stream or leat separates the town from the Meadows at Bath Row, rejoining the River Welland just before the town bridge. The embankment for the upper reaches of the mill stream forms the Melancholy walk overlooking the upper meadows, where cattle are still sometimes grazed. The weir and sluice for the leat were replaced when the large pumping station for Rutland Water was built near the modern A1 bridge over the Welland. The line of the leat follow part of the line of the town walls.

References

1. Lincolnshire Life (PDF), Lincoln (April), pp. 41, 42, 2003 http://www.lincolnshirelife.co.uk/uploads/files/homes_and_gardens/homes-0403.pdf Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. Historic England. "Mill (506150)". PastScape. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
3. Historic England. "King's Mill Stamford (193830)". Images of England. Retrieved 12 February 2010.

• Raines, David (2004), "King's Mill, Stamford", Lincolnshire History & Archaeology, Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology (39).

External links

• Private web site with licensed copy of listed building data
• Thomas, Dr. D. L. (1982). "The Cecil Monopoly of Milling in Stamford 1561-1640". The Stamford Historian. Stamford research group. Retrieved 2013-04-03.

Coordinates: 52°39′00″N 0°28′58″W / 52.650086°N 0.482846°W