page_title: River Eden, Kent
section_title: Chiddingstone (Cranstead) Mill
hierarchical_section_title: River Eden, Kent / Watermills / Chiddingstone (Cranstead) Mill
caption_attribution_description: Chiddingstone Mill - Formerly Cranstead Mill, near Bough Beech, Kent
context_page_description: The River Eden in West Kent is a tributary of the River Medway. It travels through the Weald of Kent from the border with Surrey, rising from the source in Titsey parish, Surrey, grid reference TQ 420 551, about 350 metres north of Clacket Lane motorway services, and flowing eastward through the Wealden clay to join the River Medway near Penshurst, Kent, grid reference TQ 537 434. The section from its source to where the Gibbs Brook joins it is also known as the Broadmead Water. Its name is a back formation deriving from Edenbridge, the main town through which it flows, and which was originally called in the Old English language "Eadhelmsbrigge".
context_section_description: TQ 496 461 51°11′40″N 0°08′31″E
  Possibly a Domesday site. In the 18th century the millers were the Keeys family, Richard c.1740, followed by his son Richard. In 1840 the mill was owned by Henry Streatfield and in the occupation of James Young. The wife of his son James Jr died in 1853, James Jr was describes as being "of Chiddingstone mill". The mill was last worked in the 1930s.
  This mill was a derelict shell for many years, but the building has now been house converted. No machinery survives. A picture of the mill before conversion can be seen here and more pictures can be seen here.
caption: Chiddingstone Mill, now house-converted
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