Monument record MNL 456 - Mildenhall Turf Lock; New Lock; River Lark

Mildenhall Turf Lock (New Lock). Constructed in the 1890s by converting a Staunch into a pound lock. Today the lower gates are missing and the structure acts as a weir (S1). Staunch stonework dated 1832 (S3). Rare , unique (?) in East Anglia survival of a turf-sided lock (S2).
Recorded in gazetteer of significant Industrial Archaeological sites extracted from a 1980 booklet entitled 'Industrial Archaeology in and around Norfolk' and revised as 'Suffolk IA Sites in 1980' in Suffolk Industrial Archaeological Society Newsletter (SIAS Newsletter, 115, Nov 2011) where it is described as: Navigation Locks (at both TL 707743 and 710743)[MNL 456 & 457]. Downstream lock was originally a flash-lock: converted to a turf-sided pound lock provided at the same time (when the navigation to Bury St Edmunds was being revised). The B1102 crosses the river between the two. Also a small warehouse (probably, originally a mill) and a little NE the large Lark Mills of 1908 and navigation pub (S4).