Tributaries River Darent

1 tributaries

1.1 stream @ brasted

1.1.1 mill farm mill, brasted


1.2 stream @ chevening

1.2.1 whitley (dibden) mill, chevening


1.3 stream @ ightham

1.3.1 ightham mill
1.3.2 kemsing mill


1.4 greatness stream

1.4.1 greatness mill, sevenoaks
1.4.2 greatness silk mill, sevenoaks


1.5 guzzlebrook

1.5.1 childs bridge mill, kemsing
1.5.2 longlodge mill, otford


1.6 stream @ bradbourne

1.6.1 bradbourne mill, sevenoaks


1.7 cranpit stream

1.7.1 hall s engineering works, dartford

tributaries

various tributaries feed river darent. powered number of watermills.

stream @ brasted
mill farm mill, brasted

tq 468 554

mill farm mill may have been built in 1705, date of mill house. worked smith family, ceasing work c. 1858. 14 feet (4.27 m) 3 feet (0.91 m) cast iron waterwheel , machinery removed before first world war. building standing in 1954, converted garage.

stream @ chevening
whitley (dibden) mill, chevening

tq 508 533

this mill stood deep in woodland west of sevenoaks. held ralph bosville of bradbourne manor in 16th century. mill in existence until @ least mid-19th century had ceased working 1900. overshot waterwheel of composite construction carried on wooden axle 9 feet 6 inches (2.90 m) long , 18 inches (460 mm) square @ waterwheel, 12 inches (300 mm) diameter in mill. mill in ruins 1920s

stream @ ightham
ightham mill

a tributary rising near st. cleres reputed have driven watermill, possibly 1 @ ightham recorded in 1322 property of william inge.

kemsing mill

tq 543 586

this mill on tributary drove mill @ ightham. kemsing reputed site of roman watermill @ springhead, excavated in 1949.

greatness stream
greatness mill, sevenoaks

an old mill site, in 1381 mill @ gretnarsche in possession of john colepeper. mills later in ownership of fane/vane family, being known gretness-mylls in 1550s, being 2 water corn mills. john thorpe (miller?) living @ greatness mill @ time of death in 1835. building of weatherboard on steel frame on brick base, replacing earlier mill burnt down after first world war. overshot waterwheel 20 feet (6.10 m) 4 feet 6 inches (1.37 m). drove 2 pairs of french burr millstones , 1 pair of peak millstones. roller milling plant had been fitted 1906. in 1927, mill still worked water power, aided 15 horsepower (11 kw) gas engine.

greatness silk mill, sevenoaks

tq 535 570

this mill built in 1761 peter nouaille, came possession of manorial watermill on marrying elizabeth de la mare of greatness. stood downstream of corn mill. nouaille went bankrupt in 1778 recovered, employing 100 people when retired in 1800. mill had breastshot waterwheel. closed down after nouaille s death c. 1828. mills immortalised in poem ode on silk mills @ greatness joseph harrison.

guzzlebrook
childs bridge mill, kemsing

tq 545 580

a long lost mill site, thought have been corn mill. mill pond 400 yards (370 m) 50 yards (46 m) in extent.

longlodge mill, otford

tq 531 584

possibly site of 1 of otford s 8 domesday mills. mill abandoned @ date not remembered in field names.

stream @ bradbourne
bradbourne mill, sevenoaks

this corn mill. on 24 october 1545 bradbourne mill granted henry viii william darkenolde 21 years @ £6.13s.4d per annum. king finding timber repair of mill. in 1557, ralph bosville bought mill. in 1592, henry bosville died, leaving manor of bradbourne, , water grist mill in tenure of richard phillipes , sythe mill in occupation of chapman amongst property.

cranpit stream
hall s engineering works, dartford

tq 542 745

millwright john hall built cast iron waterwheel replace windmill powered of machinery @ workshops in hythe street, dartford.