Slawit MillPond Restoration
https://slaithwaitemillpond.org
Ey up everyone, welcome back to my channel! in this video I am returning to the charming village of Slawit or Slaithwaite if your a comer inner 😂😂 and we are going to have a little chat about the on going and very ambitious restoration of its historic mill pond.
Now for the foreigners Slaithwaite, located in West Yorkshire, England, it really is a hidden gem that's been undergoing some fantastic changes lately.
Mill ponds were often created through the construction of a mill dam or weir (and mill stream) across a waterway.
In many places, the common proper name Mill Pond has remained even though the mill has long since gone. It may be fed by a man-made stream,[3] known by several terms including leat and mill stream. The channel or stream leading from the mill pond is the mill race, which together with weirs, dams, channels and the terrain establishing the mill pond, delivers water to the mill wheel to convert potential and/or kinetic energy of the water to mechanical energy by rotating the mill wheel. The production of mechanical power is the purpose of this civil engineering hydraulic system.