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Plas-yr-Esgob Corn Mill;Plas-yr-Esgob Mill;Bishop's Palace Mill;Bishop's Palace Corn Mill, St Asaph

Corn Mill

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Plas-yr-Esgob Corn Mill stands in St Asaph, Denbighshire, preserving a Post Medieval building that likely ground local grain before machines took over. The name connects the mill to a bishop's palace, hinting that church authority once directed ordinary hunger. Whether residents queued for flour or workers simply lived beside the stones, the site still holds that lost rhythm of human effort.
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Plas-yr-Esgob Corn Mill;Plas-yr-Esgob Mill;Bishop's Palace Mill;Bishop's Palace Corn Mill, St Asaph as Corn Mill from the Post Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
The Bishop's Palace Mill, St Asaph, was built in the Post Medieval period and is associated with the historic Bishop's Palace, reflecting the administrative and economic role of the bishops of St Asaph. It is remembered as a rare surviving example of a medieval ecclesiastical mill in Wales.

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