Postcard c1900 depicting the old Corn Mill in Hawarden (Tinkersdale).
Originally built in 1767 by millwright Charles Howard for local landowner Sir John Glynne Bart.
The building was at first a single two-storey range built of Sandstone and had a later wing added to the south-east side built of brick and rubblestone. Further to this there was a later addition of a third storey over both parts built of brick.
The overshot waterwheel is in a separate roofed chamber to the south-west end of the original range, this was powered by the flow of Broughton brook.
The mill pool lay to the north-west, impounded by a bank which also carried a private track, water passed in a culvert under the track.
Between the mill and the track is a ten metre high industrial chimney, the purpose of which and it's relationship to the mill itself is uncertain.
The mill was still in use up until the 1940's, since then it has been abandoned and fallen derelict with the floors collapsing in on eachother and nature reclaiming ownership of the site.
The waterwheel is still largely intact and the machinery gearing remains, albeit in a bit of a heap.
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