This mill is appears in financial accounts of the lordship of Gower in 1399-1400 under the caption for the manor of Landimore which by then had fallen temporarily under demesne control. It was at farm to a John Colyn for £4 per annum and is referred to as `Stomill? (1). On the Tithe map of 1846 the mill is portrayed as Stone Mill. Two buildings are shown adjacent to what looks like a `straightening out? of the stream course between two bends, presumably to form the leat. The gable end of one building abuts the leat and is probably the mill, the other to one side and at right angles to it is set back from the leat and is perhaps the miller's house.

Further details and its early post-medieval history have been outlined. The mill lay on the Burry river to the south-west of Cheriton village, the lowest point of the river (SS 451 931) which was where Thomas Aubrey was actively milling in Elizabethan times (survey of 1598). Today, his main leat still carries the river for nearly a quarter of a mile. The next site was a 'custome' mill for the manor of Landimore (survey 1651), known as Stone Mill. The outline of its walls and its leat indicate a 10ft. breastshot wheel driving a set of 3ft 10in stones - unearthed in the ruins (2).

(1) D.K.Leighton, `The demesne watermills of the lordship of Gower in the fourteenth century: a reappraisal?, Melin 21 (2005), 9-36.
(2) B.S.Taylor `The Mills of Burry River?, Welsh Mills Society newsletter no.21, July 1990.

David Leighton & Brian Malaws, RCAHMW, 5 July 2010.