| Morwellham Quay - four Waterwheels Location
Grid reference - SX 446 697
OS Sheet - 201
About one mile SE of Gunnislake, off A390 follow brown signs.
Wheel 1: overshot, cast in Tavistock in the late 19th century. Pumped drinking water to workers cottages. Can be operated.
Wheel 2: 32-ft diameter, cast in Newton Abbot in 1908 and used in a Dartmoor china clay works. Can be operated.
Wheel 3: in the Victorian farm buildings, once powered a threshing machine. Now working, supplied by a hydraulic ram pump.
Wheel 4: 18-ft diameter and 100-ft underground, fed from the surface, and working a pump at a lower level through flat rods and a balance bob.
This once thriving copper port by the River Tamar is operated by the Morwellham & Tamar Valley Trust Opening Times
Easter to October, daily, 10.00 - 17.30. October to Easter, daily, 10.00 - 16.30. (Closed over Christmas).
National Mills Weekend opening times
Morwellham Quay is in administration. Consult
website for information about 2010.
Saturday & Sunday 10.00 - 17.30. Contact
Information service 01822 833808.
Party bookings 01822 832766, Anthony Power.
E-mail
enquiries@morwellham-quay.co.uk Web Site
www.morwellham-quay.co.uk | 
