2019
TQ0347 : Remains of a Bridge at the Gunpowder Mills
taken 5 years ago, near to Chilworth, Surrey, England
Remains of a Bridge at the Gunpowder Mills
Explosives were manufactured at Chilworth for nearly three hundred years between 1626 and 1920. The factory covered a large site using water from the Tilling Bourne to drive mills and to fill a network of small canals which were used to transport gunpowder safely around the works.
The bridge carried a tramway which in later years from 1888 brought coal from Chilworth Station. The wagons were pushed manually along a metre gauge tramway, the first known use of this gauge in the UK.
The stream is the New Cut dating from 1656, one of the canals.
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