The Mill

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2009

Lot 38
Coloured Brown on Plan No. 1.
ABER MILL
A COMMODIOUS AND SUBSTANTIALLY CONSTRUCTED BUILDING
containing most extensive accommodation on Three Floors, with Stables and Shed at ends, and partly in the/ Occupation of Messrs. W. M. Roberts & Co.

The Lot includes Water Wheel, with Shafts and Drive, and a supply of water is provided by a Mill Race (fed from Afon Aber), over which rights-of-way are reserved to the owner,, for the time being, of the adjoining premises known as the Cottage and the adjoining field, No. 188 on plan. Being centrally situated and having ample floor' space for such premises, the Mill, with slight alteration at a trifling expenditure, could easily be converted into a first-class Village Hall or Institute. what a shame it took 82 years and £ 300,000 for this to happen

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the mill with griff griffiths and owner of the cafe02

To the left you can see In the background the mill in the fore ground is Mr Griff Griffiths and Mr Taylor who owned the Cafe Royal at the time. The original Mill has been around from before 1668, when it was run as a corn mill by the Rev. William Griffith, The Rector of Aber and his partners at the Aber Mill were presented at the manor court for keeping swine without pegs in their noses, the pigs having push ploughed several fields and also the highway within the Lordship.

The Mill was rebuilt some time around the 1850 and that by 1871 a Mr Williams is working there as the miller. The mill was powered by an over fed water wheel fed from a culvert taken from the river further up the valley, you can still see parts of it running beside the road. The culvert that runs from the river above Aber must have run quite quickly as there appears to be no water holding pond, so the wheel would have been powered by the water in the channel alone