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- Eling Tide Mill is one of the very few working tide mills in the UK but cannot be equated with the mill listed in the Domesday Book.
- Eling Tide Mill is one of the very few working tide mills in the UK but cannot be equated with the mill listed in the Domesday Book.
- Another rebuilding took place in 1721, again by the tide mill owners, and with the City of London approinting a surveyor to oversee the work.
- The Prescott Channel was constructed to bypass the tide mills, and gave access from the creek to the Three Mills Wall River and the Waterworks River.
- The channel included sluices to regulate water levels above it, but these became redundant once the tide mills ceased to operate, and eventually seized up.
- Tide mills are usually situated in river estuaries, away from the effects of waves but close enough to the sea to have a reasonable tidal range.
- There are two yacht harbours, the Tidemill Yacht Harbour, close to the Tide Mill; and the Granary Yacht Harbour, further upstream at Melton.
- Henry Burr Sherwood acquired a 3 / 4 interest in the tide mill for $ 1500 in 1853 ( Westport Land Records, 6 : 261 ).
- In the 19th century, Port Clyde became a busy port featuring granite quarries, tide mills for sawing timber, and shipbuilding and fish canning businesses.
- Eling's attractions include its tide mill that is at one end of the harbour and Eling's Saxon foundations with registers dating back to 1537.