page_title: Medway watermills (middle tributaries)
section_title: Roughway Paper Mill, Plaxtol
hierarchical_section_title: Medway watermills (middle tributaries) / River Bourne / Roughway Paper Mill, Plaxtol
caption_attribution_description: English: A picture postcard showing Roughway Paper Mill, Plaxtol, Kent. Card published by F. Frith &amp; Co. Ltd., Reigate, Surrey. Card was posted from Hadlow on 4 June 1904.
context_page_description: The Medway and its tributaries and sub-tributaries have been used for over 1,150 years as a source of power. There are over two hundred sites where the use of water power is known.
  These uses included corn milling, fulling, paper making, iron smelting, pumping water, making gunpowder, vegetable oil extraction, and electricity generation. Today, there is just one watermill working for trade. Those that remain have mostly been converted. Such conversions include a garage, dwellings, restaurants, museums and a wedding venue. Some watermills are mere derelict shells, lower walls or lesser remains. Of the majority, there is nothing to be seen. A large number of tributaries feed into the River Medway. The tributaries that powered watermills will be described in the order that they feed in. The mills are described in order from source to mouth. Left bank and right bank are referred to as though the reader is facing downstream.
context_section_description: This mill was built c. 1807 and was powered by steam and water. The mills were worked by Messrs, Turner & Co from at least 1862 to post 1882 and produced paper which Messrs. De La Rue used for printing colonial postage stamps. Latterly a 9 feet (2.74 m) diameter by 4 feet (1.22 m) wide breastshot waterwheel was used to drive bellows for the steam engine. There was a tall chimney which was a local landmark but this was demolished in 1997 after a fire.
caption: Roughway Paper Mill, 1904.
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