PRN 64907 Until the middle of the seventeenth century, two watermills stood close to each other in the Riverside area, between the bend in the river at watergate end and the bridhe over Southgate. The snaller and less productive of the two was known as the Hurn Mill, and must have been somewhere close to the Fire Station. (A "hurn" is a sharp bend in a road or river). It had disappeared by about 1700 and its precide location remains a matter for conjecture, although the pond into which the Fire Station's horse slipway descended may originally have been part of its leet system. {1}