Langstone Mill (2)
Properly speaking, this photo should be entitled Langstone Mills, because there are two mills here. On the left we have the gaunt black tower of a Victorian windmill. In the early years of the 20th century it still ground corn, but now it has been gutted of its machinery and turned into a very desirable residence. Beside the windmill, on the right of the photograph, we see a watermill which is fed by a freshwater lake immediately to the left (and out of the photograph).
The watermill, too, has been converted into a house. It was very much older, in origin, than the windmill. In fact, there was probably a watermill on this site long before the windmill had even been invented. Certainly, there was a mill in this manor at the time of the Domesday survey ( approximately two hundred years before the first windmills were seen in England), and this place is considered to be the most likely one for its situation.