The John Bargrave Collection
Clack Mill Farm
Bristol, England, Europe
No image has been attached.View Larger MapDescription of institution: This farm, later called simply Clack Farm, was close to a water-mill of this
name on the river Trym. Its farmhouse was at the present junction of
Coombe Dale and Sunny Hill,
Sea Mills. A clack-mill was a
windmill-like device producing
a loud clicking noise for scaring
birds. The word must have also
meant a mill which made a
sound like this, maybe in
reference to the damsel-rod or
clapper banging on the hopper
to help feed grain onto the
millstones. It may have been a
variant of *clap-mill in a similar
sense, found in some placenames. The buildings were
demolished in 1937 to make
way for the expanding
suburban estate of Sea Mills.
See p. 15 of the URL.