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Corn Mill

The Old Mill at Cross Green is one of the most important reminders of Llancarfan's former working life. It was the village's corn mill, standing beside the Nant Llancarfan where the stream provided the power to drive its machinery. By the time of the 1840 Tithe Map and the first Ordnance Survey mapping of the later nineteenth century, it was established as the Old Corn Mill, forming one of the two historic centres of the village — the other being the church. The mill was supplied by a mill race, and the surviving overshot waterwheel is a particularly important survival. The water from the Nant was diverted to provide the necessary fall and force to turn the wheel and operate the milling machinery.

The mill continued to serve the surrounding farming community into the twentieth century and remained a working corn mill until 1938. Its position beside the old ford at Cross Green was particularly appropriate, as farmers could bring their grain to the mill from the surrounding farms using the network of lanes and tracks which converged there. The mill was subsequently converted into a private dwelling, but remarkably, the original waterwheel, part of the mill race and some of the internal machinery survive, providing a tangible link with Llancarfan's agricultural and industrial past. Together with the New Mill farther down the valley, it illustrates how the Nant Llancarfan once supplied the power for a small but important milling industry within the village.

The above  photograph from about 1910, shows the overshot waterwheel at the Old Mill. In the picture, William and Maria Price, with children of the Lougher and Price families can be seen. This provides a strong Price-family connection with the Old Mill in the early twentieth century, although again it does not by itself prove that William Price was the miller.