Cadster Mill Traditional Geocache
La Lunatica: Unfortunately there has been no response to my earlier log.
Therefore I am archiving this cache.
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This is a drive-by micro cache with room only for log. Parking close by on what was once the A6. You will need a pencil. Please replace carefully.
Cadster is the site of one of the many small mills found all over the Peak District. It was originally a corn mill powered by the Randal Carr brook and mentioned in documents in 1701. It was developed as a color grinding works during Victorian times. Cadster Mill ground barytes and was in operation as a paint and colour works in 1846 owned by John Ford.
Colour works were small water-powered grinding mills that ground natural pigments for adding colour to paint. These pigments were ground to a paste between millstones.
The ore Barytes, known in the Peak as 'cauk' or 'cawk' or “heavy ore”, was used as an extender pigment, giving improved brushing and storage qualities to paint. It is still an essential component for many paints, espescilly those used for priming and sealing purposes. In the 19th century, millions of tons were extracted from Bradwell mines, some 15 miles east .
The mill building which has also been used as a dairy, a laundry, tanning pits and a garage, is now being refurbished by Mark Jacobs after being deriilct for many years.
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