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The next reference i have found is a 1730 estate map which clearly shows a watermill. However, assuming the map is correct we see the mill is not in the same position as todays mill.
It is believed that the previous mill, perhaps the monastic mill or even a later one was sited on the south bank of where the millpond is today and even under some farm buildings. Old OS maps show water features that may be earlier millponds in this area.
Also a 'mill house' is shown on this estate map.
In the 1775 will of Charles, Lord Viscount Maynard, Joseph Hawes is listed as miller at Tilty for both wind and watermills. (NOTE-Hawes is also recorded as miller at Elmbridge watermill in Little Easton (another Maynard estate property) at this time).
So, in 1775 Tilty has a water and a windmill but there are no further mentions of a windmill after this.
With the windmill gone around this time was the current mill structure we see today now built?
Current thinking dates the mill we see today being built at around
the late 18th century, was the current watermill built to replace the old windmill at a time when mills were very profitable and urgently needed to ensure supply of the nations bread in the threat of war with napolenoic France?
Unfortunately no-one has been able to find evidence of the date of building of the current mill yet but in 1813 an etate agents valuation book (in the ERO), lists John Webb of Thaxted, (the same John Webb who built Thaxted windmill) buying Tilty Mill and farm from Charles Davey, (probably from the Wethersfield Davey milling family), for £528. It lists Webb paying £328 for farming stock, £110 for 'stock in trade in Tilty mill' and interestingly £95 for 'workmanship about the mill done by Mr Charles Davey'
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| Very Rare WW2 Pillbox in Barn Nr Tilty Watermill |
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