The Old Bridge at Kestle Mill - geograph

Kestle and Kestle Mill are

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, England. They are situated south of

Quintrell Downs Quintrell Downs is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, close to Newquay, at the junction of the A392 and A3058 roads.Ordnance Survey ''Landranger 200; Newquay, Bodmin & surrounding area, 1:50 000''. 1988 It is named after the surroundi ...

; Kestle Mill is on the A3058 main road.Ordnance Survey ''Landranger 200; Newquay, Bodmin & surrounding areas, 1:50 000''. 1988 It is mostly in the

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of St. Newlyn East Kestle is an ancient village originally named Kestell predating

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but not listed in the

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. Kestle Mill stands just back from the road behind the old road bridge. The last recorded use of the mill varies from 1915 to 1950 but photos exist of the mill building and wheel taken during the 1920s which show the mill wheel overgrown and out of use. It is certain that by 1955 the mill was disused and abandoned and around this time the Mill was converted into two cottages. Looking at the mill building from the road today, the old Mill house is on the left hand side and the converted mill is on the right. All that remains of the mill machinery on site are three millstones standing in front of the building and a small section of the old mill leat which used to feed into a small culvert to one side of the old bridge.

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