A view of one of the herb gardens at the entrance to the castle. I think they were divided into culinary, medicinal, scented, and strewing herbs.
The castle has had several revamps over the years.
The family coat of arms above a gateway.
Inside the inner ward.
This is the rather gloomy-looking undercroft, which was used mainly for storage.
The rather Baronial-looking great hall. Furniture was on the sparse side . . .
This must have been a wonderfully light room when it was added to the Castle in Elizabethan times.
The long view.
The Mill is one of the biggest I've seen, and beyond it a causeway crosses the river, so that, had we not been in a hurry, we could have walked a full circle.
A lovely Victorian house on the approach to the Mill.
The tide was out when we arrived.
A very unusual piece of equipment I've not seen in any other mill.
For some reason the local funeral bier ended up stored inside the Mill too . . .
When you read "stone-ground" on a bag of flour - this is what would have ground the wheat.
Fabric "funnels" channelled the wheat to a wooden container above the mill stones.
Pass!
A view of some of the cogs which ran the mill machinery. It must have been incredibly noisy and dusty in here when the mill was in operation.
The spares . . .
Another cogs/wheels view.
The machinery is massive.
2 comments:
I haven't heard of Carew Castle but it looks in very good shape, look forward to reading more about it. What a fascinating area you live in, so much history and so beautiful too.
Carew's "over the border" in Pembrokeshire, Rowan. It had a chequered history, so I shall do a little potted piece on it this evening - it took so long to get the photos up this morning, all I could run to was a link!
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