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.
We are "Pays des Collines" in Hainaut, about 25 km north-east of Tournai . The mill Tordoir is one of the few water mills still standing in the industry.
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.
A few steps from the Abbey Valoires at Maintenay can find the beautiful Mill Master Paul, located on the banks of Authie in the valleys of Seven Valleys .
Mill Family Sailly remained intact. After suffering the Hundred Years War (the date of Moulin 1160), the Industrial Revolution and then abandoning the family of his last master, Paul Miller, decided to restore it. Open to the public, to share the love of family and also to transmit the tradition, the mill is absolutely fascinating to visit, mechanical grinding, milling tools and sawyer (The Mill also served as a mill), manufacturing workshop of the former ppain ... Visit An interesting site: created by John and Bernard Vanhoutte, fans of the mills.
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. is, since 1981, owned by the family de Bruyn, who rehabilitates and operates energy and for various activities related to the environment (engineering of wetlands, associations, training, introductions to the river, recreation). He was placed under the protection of the state and enrolled in the supplementary inventory of historic monuments by order of the Prefect of Picardy dated January 14, 1993.
In the department of Oise, the mill is located along the Thérain in the town of Fouquenies (north-west of Beauvais). It is for direct descendants of a Huguenot family since 1448 withdrawn in these ponds will operate cottages.