Moulin de Haut de Bellefontaine

This site on the Diélette has been occupied by a mill since the 12th century.
The current mill, building and mechanisms, date from the middle of the 18th century and have not been modified since. It has retained all of its mechanisms, which are entirely made of wood. 3 pairs of millstones are driven by 2 wooden wheels.
A group of volunteers have been working tirelessly for years to restore the building and its mechanisms to their original state. Grants from local authorities have allowed us to install a new frame shaped by students from the E.Doucet Vocational High School in Equeurdreville, and to cover the building with schist stone.
It will then be one of the only mills in the North Cotentin to have survived, as it operated in the 18th century.
On the other side of the river are the remains of an older mill, from the 16th century. All the remaining masonry has been “crystallized” to show the location of the mills that followed one another and the evolution of the know-how of our ancestors.
Today, the building has been completely restored, as has the mechanism of the wheat mill.
A second wheel was installed last year and the volunteers, during the numerous monthly projects, undertook to restore the mechanism of the barley millstone, and that of the buckwheat millstone, as well as the clutches/disengages of these millstones.