Glenfield Watermill
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Hello and welcome back to another noseh! Today we go and take a look at Glenfield Watermill, on the outskirts of Leicester. After finding Glenfield Watermill through looking at the old maps online, I couldn't wait to get over there and have a look. The main building itself, unfortunatly is locked up, but there was enough for us to look at, I also found an interesting little culvert.
The Watermill itself, was powered by the picturesque Rothley Brook, a tributary of the river Soar, I couldn't find a lot online in terms of the mills history, but it sits in a very accesable location.
The midlands very first Steam Railway, The Leicester to Swannington Railway, went past the mill, and is now a footpath. This Mill building, and workings, may be late 18th century, but could be later. One theory I had whilst down here, was that during construction of the railway, which opened in 1832, is that, during construction of the embankment, they may have had to modify some of the mills water workings that lay close to the railway bank.
I enjoyed making this video, although it was my 4th attemped!
Joining me for this one, is my son, Vinny, who just recently has taken a keen interest in photography, and this kind of history, being nearly 15, this was around the Ssame time I took a keen interest in this stuff as well!
Anyway, lets go and take a look at this wonderfull old mill near Leicester.
I hope you enjoy the video, cheers, Steve, X
Quality!.
Another amazing historical gem in the county of land locked Leicestershire .
Love the fact you took your Lad too .
More kids should want to & be given these opportunities for fresh air exercise & real adventure gaining knowledge on the way .
Hi Elizabeth! Thank you very much. I think that was a couple of years back, he’s shot up quite a bit since then
Great video. So many interesting places right on our doorstep. West Leicestershire has plenty to offer.
Next time, let's see some of Vinnie's photo's ;-)
Thank you! Yes we do have a lot round here still
Excellent Steve, I enjoyed that. Fascinating square culvert, get that remote controlled vehicle down there!
Thanks Martin. I think we will get some sort of cheap car to send in to these places, with a thin rope tied to the back of coarse haha
Brilliant, just brilliant mate.
Thank you Andy, I do love my mills!
Really interesting. When walking through the brooks of villages, you can come across some fascinating hidden structures that you would normally never see.
Thanks Tim. I'm always following water coarses, it's an obsession! Thanks for watching
Nice one, going for a look at that mesen
Hello mate, yes it's a nice little noseh and very easy to get to and find
Great video mate...funnily enough we walked past it last night and said what a great place for either a micro brewery or some kind of real ale drinking house...Only because we visited one at the weekend in Melbourne :)
I'd be down there all the time then lol
This has been our hangout spot for years
And what a great hangout spot it is!
Thank you, used to rod fish there back in the 70s, when i was a nipper with my cousin, it was a lot less overgrown back then
Thanks Jason. I noticed a few half decent chub in there. I'm half tempted to start a little fishing channel.
@@LeiceExplore that sounds like a good idea, my partner fancies fishing and i can't remember much of what i used to know
@@jasonm4982 I'm no expert at all! Far far from it actually! That was the idea around the idea lol
Great video. Well done both. I have often cycled past this & heard the water rushing over the wear, but didn’t know about the Mill 😀at all
Thank you. I spend quite a bit of time looking at old maps online, searching for old mills. Usually they are either levelled, or converted to homes. So to come across this one day, still there was brilliant. Thanks for watching!
Great video. Thanks. I think I saw that the remains of a wheel is lying in someone's garden nearby.
Thank you! Yes I read on line about the wheel, thanks for watching
Nice walk down that ivanhoe trail. I'm from down stream in anstey, they've converted the anstey mill. Dunno which is older. was curious of this mill as you can only see bits off the path.
Hello there! Yes the mill at anstey, which I don't know the age of, I noticed on the maps, but I was gutted to see it was occupied, whilst at the same time happy to know it hadn't been levelled. Thanks for watching
Enjoyed that little vid son, nice to see vin enjoying himself to x
Thank you mother, yes he loves the camera
The bit at 12:55 was definitely trick photography 😂 great video again steve & Vinnie 👍
Lol...cheers buddy
The curved metal guide in the mill wall could possibly be for the sluice gate ?
Yes it appears that way from a comment I just read
Looks like it was an undershot wheel.
As someone who has lived close by all my life, having walked, ran & cycled along there literally hundreds of time often wondered about the history of the mill. Looking closely at the brickwork on the mill the bricks look very similar to those of the ones at Kirby Muxloe Castle, could that be possible, was there a brickwork close by ?
Hello there, thank you. I think there may have been a brick yard next to this railway, near the mill.
You could perhaps visit the tunnel (once the world's longest) if you haven't already.
I think there starting guided walks in there again now, and I do want to get in there that's for sure
Great Video. We used to fish the pool below the weir as kids but obviously it is now silted up and overgrown because it used to be quite deep. I do remember seeing something online that went into the Mills history and the occupants.
Thank you Daniel. There still are some decent sized fish in here from what I seen on the day, not directly at the mill, but nearby
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