Lower Slaughter · The Cotswolds
Mill by the Eye
Follow the River Eye to a watermill that's still turning.
- ⏱ 20 min
- 💷 £
- 🥾 Easy
The River Eye through Lower Slaughter is barely a stream, but it's enough to have once turned the wheel of the village's old flour mill — a working mill with a redbrick chimney that looks almost out of place among the honey-stone cottages.
What you’ll do
- 1Find the river
- 2Follow it to the mill
- 3Prove it
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Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0
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