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The leat is on the left of the image; the stream on the right. Docton Mill gardens - downstream - are open to the public
©Martin Bodman
Dist:0.2km<br/>Another view of the watermill with wheel, not working any more but parts open to view machinery. Situated next to the gardens.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.2km<br/>The mill leat runs along the top side of the magnolia lawn.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is the long herbaceous border between the site boundary (alongside the stream) and a lawn planted with magnolias.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Here water is abstracted to feed the waterwheel. However as the mill is not working commercially a large water supply is not needed, so there are several overflows where water goes back into the stream.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>A historian has suggested that the mill might have been established in Saxon times, probably in the 10th century. The mill stopped working in 1910 because it ran out of business. It was renovated in 1980, but the main attraction of the site is the gardens.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>The name Docton is confusing, as Docton is 2km SSE and the nearest village is Milford. The entrance to the driveway to the car park is at Lymebridge.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>The mill leat still delivers water to the mill wheel, but is now a feature of the garden.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>A few cottages at a crossroads by a bridge over a stream that doesn't seem to have a name. A private path to the right follows the mill leat for Docton Mill up to the weir.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Docton Mill and Gardens In Devon, the mill buildings are now holiday lets but the water wheel and some machinery are still viewable.
©Ashley Dace
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©Row17
Dist:0.3km<br/>A cottage by the stream at the crossroads in the valley bottom.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.6km<br/>Milford Water, destined to end spectacularly at Speke's Mill Mouth, flows (towards the camera) along a valley lined with wood and scrub. Taken from Hartland Footpath 51 beside Speke's House.
©Derek Harper
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©Row17
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©Row17

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