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firma duor[um] molendinor[um] aquatis in Shotewode recorded in Tutbury Honor accounts. VCH Staffordshire X:92:A fleam, moreover, would have been necessary to power the mill recorded in 1086 in the Domesday Book entry for the adjoining estate at Rolleston. It was called Shotwood mill in 1325, and although in Rolleston manor, it was actually in Tutbury parish. Evidently the chief mill for the inhabitants of both Tutbury and
Rolleston, there were in fact two mills (or two mill wheels) on the site in the early 14th century, along with a fulling mill, and in the late 15 th century the miller was responsible for repairing a weir, presumably where the fleam left the river. In a ruinous condition in the mid 1550s, the mill was repaired with timber from Needwood forest in the early 1590s. |