Between Capes Gris-Nez and Blanc-Nez on the Opal Coast, the small village of Wissant houses the Mill Tiquet . It is a beautiful mill modernized in the years between the wars.
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Cited in 1276 in the "Old Annuitant Oudenaarde," he used to twist nuts or seeds for beechnuts extract the oil. Delfairière restored by the family. It can be visited .
Numerous springs feed the Aa, the waters are quite clear and very bright thanks to the chalky substrate. Many small sluices regulate the flow. An excellent quality, these waters constitute a reservation books with fish and water mills: the river had nearly a hundred mills in the nineteenth century. Many have now disappeared.
Located in the hamlet of Lucy on the main stem of the Oise at the site of an old mill whose existence is attested since the eleventh century as a dependency of the Abbey St Nicolas des Pres, the current Mill Lucy is in this part of the Valley of the Oise, the last of the flour mills of the nineteenth century to have survived the ravages of the war 14 - 18. It was built in 1840 by Sieur Niayes miller at Villers-le-Vert, then transformed in the early twentieth century, specializing in cotton dyeing, finishing and winding son until 1978.
Beautiful watermill Avesnois, located in Grand-Fayt, on Helpe near Maroilles, property Abbey Liessies the twelfth century.
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