Eller Beck Sluice Gates - Skipton, UK - Historic Hand Operated Sluice Gates on Waymarking.com

The mill was supplied by a mill race that took water from Eller Beck that ran through the centre of Skipton.

This section of a Wikipedia web page about town centre section of Eller Beck gives information about the mill and sluice gates. "Below the mill, the river passes under a Grade II Listed ashlar bridge, dating from the nineteenth century,[11] which carries the B6265 at Mill Street, and continues in the first of several culverts that carry it through and under Skipton. It passes under Water Street, and then surfaces to run beside the canal again. Some old sluices once controlled the flow to Mill Dam, which supplied the water for Millfields Mill, located just above Coach Street.[12] In 1822, the mill was occupied by James Wilson, who was a spinner of worsted. The lower floor was used as a paper glazing mill, but from the 1840s, Messrs. Mason and Hallam used the entire building for spinning worsted. By 1882, it had become a spindle works, making spindles for the textile industry.[13] Mill Dam was still shown on the 1969 map, but had become a car park by 1979" link

A small information sign near the sluice gates tells of their operation.

The mill race and sluice gates
in operation, before silting up
The silted up and overgrown area to your right is
part of the old mill-race to Spindle Mill. The original
sluice-gates remain. The half buried gate next to
you controlled the water to the mill. The intact gate,
when open, returned water to the beck. The high
wall and wide arch of the tunnel-like bridge is part
of the raised level of Water Street dating from 1824.

Springs Canal, built in 1797, runs parallel with Eller Beck and there is a footpath and foot bridge near here that connects the canal tow path and the road named Back of the Beck. This path gives access to the sluice gates.

Name of Waterway.: Millrace next to Eller Beck Roughly when was the Waterway created?: 1822 Is this waterway working?: Dry What is the condition of the sluice gate?: Reasonable What is/was the water used for?: Industrial use (e.g. mill race)

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