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Edge Runner Mill (site of) is a scheduled ancient monument located in Shropshire, England. The site represents the remains of an edge runner mill, a type of industrial installation used for grinding and processing materials, which was typically operated from the medieval period through to the early modern era. Edge runner mills employed rotating stones or wheels driven by water or other power sources to crush pigments, minerals, metal ores, or other substances required in various trades. The precise dating and original function of this particular Shropshire example would require consultation of the site's formal archaeological record and heritage designation documentation for definitive attribution.
Edge Runner Mill (site of) is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003024. View the official record →
Edge Runner Mill (site of) is a scheduled ancient monument located in Shropshire, England.
Edge Runner Mill (site of) is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1003024.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bury Walls: a large multivallate hillfort (0.7 km), Red Castle: an enclosure castle in Hawkstone Park (2.7 km), The Mount: a motte castle 200m west of Weston Farm (2.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Edge Runner Mill (site of)'s history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Edge Runner Mill (site of) stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.