Pontys Mill is located on the Escley Brook between Michaelchurch Escley and Longtown, and milling is thought to have continued there until the 1950’s, though other details of its history are not known. The mill had two pairs of stones driven from an overshot waterwheel. The presence of a bolter is evidence that one pair of stones was used for milling flour, and the other would therefore most likely have been for animal feed. The waterwheel is completely unserviceable, and the leet is dry, having been filled in upstream from the mill. The course of the leet after the first fifty yards or so is no longer easy to discern, and little evidence remains of exactly where it met the Escley Brook or the abstraction arrangements there. The mill is not accessible to the public.

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