 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm standing by Lock 13 on the Corden Canal also known as the Corden branch of the Trent and Mersey canal that way looking towards Foggle, but we're going to go that way to visit the Chetilton flint mill which is just on the other side of the road so go around the end of the lock over bridge 43, get one more view looking down the canal, Chetilton station on Chetilton very railway is about half a mile that way. We're going to go up here and we're going to go and see the flint mill which is just the other side of the main road so we've got to go through a rather tunnel like bridge under the main road it's not really a tunnel it is just quite a wide bridge but it gives the feeling of a tunnel. Chetilton village is just up the hill up there and the town of Leek is a couple of miles in that direction so give you an idea of where we are exactly it's just starting to rain and see the drips on the canal so here we approach the bridge it's quite interesting how they've had to widen this bridge because obviously advance been a much narrower road even though it's the main trunk route from Leek out towards Stoke on Trent and Chetilton if you're heading in that direction so get to here you can see the bridge it's that part of the bridge is concrete but halfway through we see a line and this part of the bridge is brick so now we're under in fact it looks like it's been widened twice there's another line here so I'd say this is probably the original been widened once with brick and then widened again with concrete. It feels like we're in a tunnel, very short, come out of here and then we have a building going over the canal so heading to the tunnel like nature come to here and we see a mill here the flip mill that we're going to isn't this one it's beyond this one so that's where we've just been it's quite interesting and else with shed like building over the canal so the canal carries on this way towards Stoke on Trent but the place we're going to the flip mill is just down here so what we'll do we'll go along here I'll stay on the canal bank we'll give you an overview of where we're actually going once you get past these buildings here down there you can see the flip mill and that's where we've come to visit today so we're going to go and have a look around it is a working mill so it's quite fascinating to have a look see what there was so I'm gonna come to here you can see the crane on the canal I believe there were kilns here for the flint so let's just go down on these steps I'm no expert on mill so I'm just gonna sort of show you and if anyone wants to comment and tell me more you know tell me I'm wrong on what I've said you know feel free to so I believe this is where the kilns were I'm gonna start by showing you the Miller's Cottage and if you want to live in the Miller's Cottage there's one for sale there and so let's go and have a look see what we can see but an attractive little cottage with roses up the side here we go here is the interior of the Miller's Cottage looks like they're expecting someone for tea so we're washing hanging up a lot of China where of course being near Stoke-on-Trent known as the Potter is so a lot of China some of the big names such as Wedwood came from Stoke-on-Trent out the back it's like a little kitchen area you can see a mangle there for drying the clothes and then there's one other room I can show you and they've also got I think when I finish writing the video and I buy this postcard off the mill only 40p but they're back for now there's a little room here we go so it started to rain now raining properly but let's go and have a look at the mill we don't need to be out in the rain or first I'm gonna show you the garden of the mill go around the back of the garden to cottage rather come round here see the little back garden so they're probably grown their own vegetables and there's their toilet course that outside toilets in those days here here is the mill stream of the river churn it and there we have working water wheel so this building I believe this is the south mill they go over there is the north mill they are both working although the north mill and they're doing some work inside so they haven't actually got it in action today but it could work so let's go inside you see a working mill so there's been a mill on this site I believe from about the 12th century it was originally a corn mill the mills so they predate the canal by you know a good 500 or so years so we're talking a very long time there's been a mill here but what they are today they're preserved as flip mill so we come into here and there we have and see a grindstone mill so we've gone round and what we have working so the mill water wheel outside at least or a moment ago we'll go around the back and have a better view you can see it's turning you can see the gears and then we're gonna go upstairs and we'll see exactly what it's turning so we've got come back outside I'm gonna go up these steps up here this will take us into the mill upstairs so here we are upstairs in the mill and I showed you it was turning a shaft this is what it's turning this is where they would have crushed the flint so I believe in amongst this had been more water there'd have been some big stone like balls rolling around and they've crushed the flint right down and then the flint would have been washed down below so I believe it ran off you can see a channel down there down there down there and that's where they've been washed we can see the the washing tub in the other mill and then when the flint was washed it was very fine it was like a yoghurt paste and that was used in the pottery so I'm just gonna go up here just to give you a better view so you can come when you come and visit like I have you can come and have a good look round you can see some of the millers workers tall stair all on display and we'll get back down again so it's very much worth a visit here and if you want a while walked in without paying that's because it's free to visit we've got this string on this girder it's purely stopped you hitting your head as you can see it's very low I'm really ducked my head so I'm glad they put the string next to my head probably dropped the camera so you can here we are this is we've already seen this we're gonna go down outside now back out into the rain and we'll go and have a look at the other mill at something else I want to show you before we finish here so come out here they have a steam engine now this mill never went on to being steam powered but they've got this stationary steam engine just to show you what some mills would have had so you can see big cylinder here and there's a big flywheel you see the flywheel in there so that's quite fascinating and the interesting thing to see going they haven't actually got a boiler so they don't steam it there is a little second hand bookshop in there I won't take you in there though and go around here here's the north mill and here is the River Churn it so the River Churn it comes along on its natural course to here and then the runoff goes there and then these two courses here turn the two mills so they're they're under shot water mill so the water flows under the water wheel to turn it last time we visited a water mill was never orderly mill over in Cheshire near orderly edge that was very interesting about a completely different mill to this but have a look at the link on screen now and you can see me doing a video then how different it is to this mill here we have the water where you can see now just how big it is I mean it's not the biggest water wheel I've ever seen but it's still big and there's the back garden of the Miller's Cottage where we were a moment ago so the water flows off there you see all the ducks swimming up towards me they're probably think I'm gonna feed them but unfortunately I don't have any bread for them so this is the other water wheel does work but they're doing some work inside so that's why this one's not running today so let's go and have a look inside this one and in this one you can see a better version or you can see a version of the washer eats up so if you come in here it's gonna show you the big wheel gear for driving the mill so you can see that would turn in turn turning this gear this is where they would have washed the crush fit so this would all be turning I believe the Flint would have arrived in these little wagons on railways like plateways I don't think there was any ever locomotives pretty pushed by men or pulled by horses they'd have been winched up there up through the floor which we're gonna go up to now and have a look emptied into the main tub like the one we saw in the other mill oh and I've just started this mill up no this this mill suddenly going didn't expect that so perhaps they've mended what they were mending earlier on so that's that's quite exciting so let's go upstairs and see what we can see the washer washing tub so there would be water in there I'm sorry the grindings haven't had the grinding the fit down are you reaching a wagon up? I don't want to distract the millers too much but they are working on the chain they're lowering it again now so very fascinating I'm gonna go downstairs because I'm gonna go back downstairs and let the millers get on with it but I thought if we go outside we might be able to see the other mill I think it's stopping now I thought we went outside we might get outside so we should be able to see both mills both water wheels turning so there we go look at that it's a fascinating scene you stand here and on between two water wheels turning that's a really quite exciting thing this one is a lot bigger that's a camera they look probably on camera the same size but this one is quite a bit bigger that's really really fascinating have a good look at that so yeah this is well worth a visit you like I said as you can see you actually do get to see it all in action so I think it's really worth a visit and I said it's free to come to come visit let's just go up in rounds here yeah we might get another view of the water wheels there's the river so we're going to churn it going off on its course heads down towards Cheddleton in a similar route really to what the canal does they come round here there's some ducks there and I'll try some more way come to this corner we can stand and see the two water wheels you see all the spray coming off it I find it really fascinating like I said I don't know too much about water water wheels water mills other types of wheels such as min win mills etc but I've just always found it fascinating all the gears turning and everything and it's always really nice when you can actually see it all in action rather than just see it static so I've pretty much shown you everything there is to see here I've had a great visit I've really enjoyed it I found it very interesting and like I said do come and visit them it's free to visit you could go for a nice walk along the canal there's a few nice pubs in Cheddleton of course there's also the Churn It Valley Railway if you want to have a ride on a steam train as well and just show you one other thing before we go there's some of the kilns there's an old plate way so that wagon we saw that's what would have rolled along plate ways like that so from the flint mill at Cheddleton thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like subscribe comment tell your friends about Henry's adventures and about the Cheddleton flint mill thanks very much for watching goodbye