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The mill used to grind the powder was driven by water from a mill pond formed by a dam across the original stream. The mill was the scene of three explosions, before its eventual closure, in which several workers died (one of whom, according to a rather ghoulish contemporary newspaper report, was blown into five, named, pieces).
Battle is a town and civil parish in the district of Rother in East Sussex, England. It lies 50 miles (80 km) south-east of London, 27 miles (43 km) east of Brighton and 20 miles (32 km) east of Lewes. Hastings is to the south-east and Bexhill-on-Sea to the south. Battle is in the designated High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Powder mills were originally powered by windmills, water mills or horse mills. Despite later availability of steam engines, the older power sources did not require a fire to generate steam, and avoided the possibility of sparks which might ignite the gunpowder. Some 20th-century powder mills used electric power.
The Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey, were in operation for over 300 years. Starting in the mid-1850s the site became involved in the development of revolutionary nitro-based explosives and propellants known as "smokeless powder". The site grew in size, and black powder became less important.
Oriental Powder Company was a gunpowder manufacturer with mills located on the Presumpscot River in Gorham and Windham, Maine. The company was one of the four largest suppliers to Union forces through the American Civil War .
King's Mead Mill (also Battle Windmill or Caldbec Hill Mill) is a grade II listed [1] smock mill at Battle, Sussex, England, which has been converted to residential accommodation. History [ edit ]
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Maps First mention or built Last mention or demise Photograph Alfriston: Alfriston Mill: Tower: 1834: Windmill World: Arlington: Windover Mill Post: c. 1800 Burnt down c. 1881 Baldslow: Hayward's Mill Post: Demolished 1855 Baldslow The Harrow Mill Smock: 1855: Barcombe: Post: c. 1818 [1] Burnt down c. 1907 [1] Battle: King's Head Mill Post ...