This Tide Wather Mill is on the Mourisca estate in the beach of Sado, and was built in 1601.
The 33 hectare estate belongs to the Institute of Conservation of Nature and lies within the perimeter of the Sado Estuary Nature Reserve.
It contains quite a large area of marshland - abandoned rice fields - whose natural vegetation has been returning to an area of woodland consisting mostly of pine, cork oaks and shrubs.
The Mourisca Wather Mill is one of four to be found in the Sado estuary.
The structure occupies 280 sq. m. housed eight millstones, all operating at the same time, and was a working mill until the 1960s, when it fell into disuse.
The mill originally comprised one grinding room where the eight millstones were mounted on a stone and timber platform. Below the platform was a gearing mechanism that transmits the rotations of the water-wheels to the millstone’s axles.
The Sado Estuary Nature Reserve started reconstruction work on the mill in 1995.
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