Troll's Paradise Traditional Cache
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This is a relatively small cache although not a micro.
Suggested Parking
N50 42.142
W3 30.182
If you use the suggested parking this walk will take you past the Countess Wear Paper mill . This site has recently had a roof put back onto it and is designed to be a haven for bats.
Previously, in the nineteenth century, paper making was well established at Countess Wear; the earliest reference to a mill on St James' Weir leat was in 1563 when John Trew considered the leat as a possible route for the canal, an idea abandoned, partly because of the expense of compensating the mill owner. The leat had been in existence since the establishing by the Cluniac Priory on the land of Isca College of Media Arts, of a grist mill. The use of the site as a paper mill dates from before 1750. The paper mill was destroyed by fire twice, and two of the owners committed suicide during the nineteenth century.
In 1842, Thomas Whitaker merged two of the arches of Countess Wear bridge for Robert Davy, allowing his barges of coal access to the paper mill. The paper mill continued production until 1885 when it closed and the site was dismantled. In 1899 the remaining buildings were purchased by Mr W Percy Sladen. A water driven generator was installed for a time to provide power to the mill house and other buildings, while the City Council considered the site for a new sewage farm before they constructed one at Belle Isle. Now, the remains of the buildings on the leat and the still occupied mill house and cottages can be viewed from Mill Drive.
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