The millers’ tale
WHEN Judith Stephens remarked to an estate agent that her husband might show more interest in buying a holiday home in Devon if there was a watermill for sale, no one was more surprised than she was when the agent replied: ‘I’m just typing up the particulars for one now. If you come back later, I’ll try to arrange a viewing for you.’
Unlikely as it may seem, John Stephens had long harboured a dream of owning and running a working watermill. As a child growing up in Hampshire, Mr Stephens had spent many
