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THE SPURWHEEL

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This large oak wheel with hornbeam teeth is mounted on the main shaft. When it is engaged with the metal gear wheels (the stone nuts) it rotates the shaft on which sits the top millstone (the runner stone)

Added:
17th Mar 2010

Subjects:
Design and Technology, Geography, History, Science

Key Stages:
Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 4+

Keywords:
corn grain flour milling pitwheel spur-wheel waterwheel watermill wallower

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STOTFOLD WATERMILL

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