Photograph © Martin Bodman, under this Creative Commons Licence

Morwellham Quay Waterwheels

Location

Grid reference: SX 446 697
OS sheet: 201
Postcode: PL19 8JL
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 now 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

Saturday & Sunday, 10.00-17.30.

Contact

Information service, tel. 01822 833808. Party bookings, tel. 01822 832766, Anthony Power.

Email

enquiries@morwellham-quay.co.uk

Web site

www.morwellham-quay.co.uk