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Molceley Estates
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Welcome to the Estate of Play
This is the story of a mill and house but this is no ordinary mill. In 1086 Godfrey de Cambrai owned the 4 mills in West Deeping.
Watermills are considered man’s earliest form of labour saving technology. Back in history watermills were used for grinding corn to produce flour for bread, the staple food of the population. completing most of the building works from their arrival in the early 1700’s through to the Fullards, Riley’s and van Geest’s, who secured its local fame and brought the mill through the twentieth century.
Molecey is a huge complex of buildings which stamped its mark on the local area and it still is an arresting sight on the Stamford Road today.
