Talk:Sea Mills, Bristol

Lead too short?
This article is tagged with a template saying that the lead is too short. Is the lead too short for readers to know what the article is about? If so, make the case here. If not, I will revisit this article and remove the template. --DThomsen8 (talk) 20:53, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

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Collaboration
Hi, I have made some changes recently in order to improve the history section in particular. There's lots more to do and I am happy to collaborate with anyone else who would like to work on this. Help to structure the page would be useful. Soundmary (talk) 11:23, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Etymology
I came here wondering about the name, but the article says nothing about it. Are Clack Mill and Coombe mill the mills referred to in the name? What sort of mills were they? It doesn't seem likely they were the mills as they have no apparent association with the sea. I presume that there were mills on the shore of the Avon and / or tidal part of the Trym, which used the tidal flow to power mills as the name suggests. Alternatively it was also common on larger rivers in Europe to have mill barges/boats which would be moored in the flow of the river and mill wheels either side of the barge would power the machinery inside. Such barges would have worked here in the tidal flow. Another possibility for example, the Trym could have been dammed near the mouth onto the Avon and the tide would fill the dam at each high tide, to power a mill. Can someone improve the article with whatever information exists in this respect please? Hopefully some information exists on when, where and what mills were used here and what was milled. If no information can be found, then this could be added to the article, with presumption of the origins of the name. Lkingscott (talk) 12:47, 19 February 2024 (UTC)