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Title: Flintham Sluice, Adleburgh
Post by: windy_miller on Monday 11 July 22 21:40 BST (UK)

Evening all,

Can anyone help me identify the location of "Flintham Sluice"?  I understand that it was drainage dyke or waterway near Aldeburgh.

Cheers,
Windy

Title: Re: Flintham Sluice, Adleburgh
Post by: hookleg on Monday 26 June 23 15:34 BST (UK)

Hi Windy, there is a postcard of Flintham's Estate, Aldeburgh pre 1909. Not sure where it was located.
Also there is a sluice Cottage on Thorpe Road between Aldeburgh and Thorpeness(1937-61 OS map) and a wind pump at Red House, near Gorse Hill nearby.
Hope this info may narrow down your search.

Title: Re: Flintham Sluice, Adleburgh
Post by: windy_miller on Monday 26 June 23 23:28 BST (UK)

Hi Hookleg,

Thanks for the research.  The mill betwixt Alboro' and Thorpness was a windpump called Thorpe Marsh or Black Mill.

I noticed a mill on the north bank of the Alde (upstream from Slaughden) on the OS 6”, 1881-83 map.  Its marked as "OLd Windmill", and is ideally placed for a windpump, being to the side of a sliuce and on the river bank.  I can find nothing to give her a name though.

I think the search goes on ...

Windy

PS Fincham's was, I think, a wealthy gent and his name pops up in and about Aldeburgh, but I'll look into any connection to the cottages