Kent Water Medway watermills (upper tributaries)

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1 kent water

1.1 scarletts (scalehurst) furnace, cowden.
1.2 scarletts mill, cowden
1.3 cowden (lower) furnace
1.4 cowden (old, furnace) mill
1.5 kentwater mill
1.6 holywych mill
1.7 blackham mill
1.8 pilbeames forge





kent water

a stream rises above cowden, , enters medway on left bank below ashurst mill, powered 8 watermills.


scarletts (scalehurst) furnace, cowden.

scarletts furnace founded in 1547. known scalehurst in fifteenth century, , @ end of sixteenth century being worked 1 quintyn. came possession of john knight of lingfield. scarletts furnace badly damaged in storm in 1703 , had ceased working 1717. last reference being in 1764.>


scarletts mill, cowden

a mill here belonged richard saxpes in 1516. occupied site later used scarletts furnace. corn mill owned knight family in 1768. working in 1932, badly damaged in floods in 1937 , subsequently demolished. there oveshot waterwheel.


cowden (lower) furnace

a furnace @ work in 1556 , in 1574 being worked michael west of lyme. @ time in possession of titchbourne family. robert titchbourne being 1 of 59 men signed death warrant of charles i. furnace in ruins 1664 , site later used corn mill.the cowden gun, spoilt casting dug here.


cowden (old, furnace) mill

a corn mill here in 1786, , closed down before first world war. has been converted dwelling.


kentwater mill

this mill clad in white weatherboarding, under peg tile roof. had overshot waterwheel. demolished before world war two.


holywych mill

this mill had been demolished 1598.


blackham mill

blackham mill had wooden machinery, including waterwheel. demolished before world war two.


pilbeames forge

tq 505 403 51°08′31″n 0°09′09″e / 51.142069°n 0.152408°e / 51.142069; 0.152408


in 1588-90 thomas willoughbie owned furnace , forge in chiddingstone parish. furnace let thomas browne, father of john browne (possibly bough beech, in hever). in 1592 richard streatfeild leased pilbeames forge in chiddingstone. had been running forge @ cansiron, hartfield, sussex. pilbeams forge @ time running 4 pairs of tongs. richard streatfeild died in 1601. dam recorded 140 metres (150 yd) long , 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) high.








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