Cheddleton Flint Mill Engine

Staffordshire

 

The mill buildings. The steam engine is in the near building behind the green double doors. The chimney belongs to the calcining furnace.

Cheddleton Flint Mill is an eighteenth century water powered mill that ground calcined flints for the pottery industry. The mill is now preserved and open to the public. There is an excellent website with relevant opening times etc. at http://www.ex.ac.uk/~akoutram/cheddleton-mill/gallery.htm

Although the mill was always powered solely by water there is now a horizontal steam engine on the site. This came from Minton's pottery works in  Stoke on Trent and was installed by the preservation trust. There is no facility for steaming the engine.

The engine is a single cylinder drop valve horizontal  built by Robey and Co. of Lincoln .

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 Cylinder end view showing the drop valve actuating rod.    Drop valve with flywheel in the background. Brass oiler in the foreground.   The red painted object is the governor that controls the engine speed.

    

     View from outside showing the crosshead and crosshead guide.       Another view of the crosshead and piston rod.

 

One of the two waterwheels.

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