Local researcher Peter McGow (he insists he is not a historian, but we can't see the difference) has been kind and generous enough to deposit with us his Notes on the Mills of the Wandle.
We are happy to publish these here. They set out the 42 sites (and 7 ancillary non mill sites) where a mill, or group of mills, stood and was worked by the waters of the Wandle
We can now test our standard list of the industries of the Wandle:
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Peter's notes are dated to 2005. By way of comparison, we include here an ocr'd extract of the 1853 Survey by Braithwaite on the Wandle and its Mills. Our longer term plan is to create the database by which these two pieces, and the notes of Peter Harris, and all other material we hold about each mill/mill site can be quickly cross referenced.
The Appendix to the Braithwaite Survey is separately attached as a pdf document
Notes On The Wandle Mills by Peter McGow (Index and full text)
Braithwaites Report of 1861 on the River Wandle
Appendix to Braithwaites Report of 1861 on the River Wandle (PDF)
A Day in Surrey with William Morris
Peter McGow has researched the Surrey Iron Railway also, and you can access this work from here. He uses chapter 12 (the Route of the Surrey Iron Railway) to provide an overview of the Wandle Valley Mills. In due course we will cross reference this to the complete work.