2-637-008 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Shalford Mill', c1910, (1914). Shalford Mill is an 18th-century watermill located on the River Tillingbourne in Shalford, near Guildford, Surrey. The Domesday Book records a mill being present on the site in 1086, one of the five mills recorded as part of the great manor of Bramley. In 1932 the mill was endowed to the National Trust by Ferguson's Gang. Ferguson's Gang formed in 1927, at Tothill Fields, London and was run by an anonymous board of women who raised funds for the National Trust from 1930-1947. The present timber framed building, built c1750 housed two separate mills. The eastern half of the mill ceased operation in the 19th century and was converted for residential use. The western half remained in operation until 1914 and is now open to the public. From A Pilgrimage In Surrey, Vol. 1, by James S. Ogilvy. [George Routledge & Sons Limited, London, 1914]