The site of a mill located on the east bank of Nant Peiran. Once forming part of the Cwmystwyth grange of Strata Florida, and mentioned in a rent roll of ca. 1545, the mill had medieval origins. It was one of the former grange properties leased by the Earl of Essex and then sold subsequently to the Crosswood Estate before eventually becoming part of the Hafod Estate in 1790. Although the mill with its leat and pond are shown on an estate map of 1781, it is last mentioned as a functioning entity in estate records of 1761 and is believed to have closed down soon after, with other scattered mills, in favour of a new construction elsewhere (1).
Little can now be seen of the mill. The former mill pond is still visible, overgrown with trees and shrubs, forming a linear hollow some 40m long (E-W) by 4m-5m wide. It is bounded on the south by a scarp cut into rising ground and on the north by a bank 4m wide and 1m high. The pond dam is a broad bank some 7m wide rising to about 0.8m above the silted-up pond. At its east end the junction of the pond with its feeder leat is visible but its course fades thereafter. As for the mill building itself, it was located to the immediate south-west of the pond, above the river. Its position must have been precarious, close to the edge of the stream gorge, and it would have been vulnerable to undermining from erosion, a factor which may have hastened its demise. All that is visible now is an L-shaped stone revetment wall built into the side of the pond dam and having the appearance of a wall-core from which facing stones have been removed. Whether or not the mill ever featured in Thomas Johnes's vision for Hafod is unknown.
(1) J.Macve, `Mills of the Upper Ystwyth Valley?, Journal of the Welsh Mills Society 14 (1998), 51-69.
