Visits to the Moulin Chef du Bois

Name: Visits to the Moulin Chef du Bois
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Moulin à eau du Chef du Bois

The restoration continues, the floors are redone, and the wheel turns on this old water mill classified as a historical monument since 1939\. Exchanges with the miller’s family and commented visits.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

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Nestled in its green setting, this old water mill, classified as a historical monument, was still in operation until 1968. Visitors will discover the latest restorations: the bucket wheel runs continuously since 2016 and the floors restored in 2018 allow to rediscover the frame (2010) and the dovecote.
Free visit or commented, exchanges with the miller’s family on the upcoming projects: restoration of the 2nd wheel, electricity production, establishment of mechanisms to grind cereals again.
In and around the mill: wicker braiding demonstration, musical animation
And to enhance the visit: pancakes, cake, cider. mill, historical monument, painting exhibition

About the location

Moulin à eau du Chef du Bois

Moulin Chef du bois, 29940, La Forêt-Fouesnant

Finistère
Bretagne

Presumed to date of of the end of the 16th century, this mill with water is of undoubtedly previous(former) origin and monastic foundation. He(It) was on the old(former) parish of Locamand. His(Her,Its) volume, his(her,its) materials, two turrets of angle and his(her,its) taken(collected) position, confer on it a monumental high quality and an aspect of a Breton manor. Mill with flour, it is built granite in average device in low parts(parties), and the architecture, of rectangular plan, is in a floor with narrow openings and chamfered doors. Lived by the family of the miller, he(it) made the best, at the beginning of 1930s, of a coverage(cover) in stubble. The mill links with a bypass channel of about 800 metres in lengths, with about 6 km of the source(spring). Its hydraulic preserved well device(plan) dates 1779 and 1792 (registrations(inscriptions) in French in the monolithic granite of the noc); two strong wheels dowelled in oak, lower, external, of 3 m of diameter, are placed on both sides barlongues facades. They pulled(entailed) two pairs of millstones and a cylinder, installed(settled) after the war.