Bodior Tide Mill
The Bodior Tide Mill (also called Melin Bodior or Felin Carnau Tide Mill) is a well-preserved tide mill in Rhoscolyn, on Holy Island on the island of Anglesey in Wales .
A tide mill (also called tide mill or flood mill ) is operated periodically by ebb and flow on coasts with sufficient tidal range .
On Anglesey, tide mills were important to the local economy from the 16th century. Bodior Mill (or Ty'n y Felin) probably dates from this period, although the only recorded mention is in 1778. It includes a stone dam that has a tidal creek, a lock canal, and a canal cut into the rock at the southeast end that has contained the mill wheel and mill platform. The monument is of national importance as a rare and well-preserved example of an early tide mill.
Other tide mills on the island are: Felin Carnau Tide Mill (mentioned 1666) and the Felin Wen Tide Mill.
In the UK there are four tide mills received:
- the Carew Tidal Mill in Wales , now a museum
- in Woodbridge near Ipswich
- Efford Mill Lymington near Southampton
- on the River Lea in East London
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Coordinates: 53 ° 15 '37 " N , 4 ° 34' 5.5" W.