The milling without water in the Tierra de Campos in the middle of the XVIII century

Abstract

Much has been written about the mills, both from the point of view of popular architecture and industrial heritage, and from the ethnographic field, given that the mills were a point of concentration of the population that, unfailingly, had to go through there to grind the grain to get flour and bread. For this reason, we investigate in this work about the presence of other artifacts for the grinding specific to a region such as Tierra de Campos lacking hydraulic resources, tahonas or blood mills. Thanks to the documentation generated by the Cadastre of Ensenada, it is possible to analyze the presence of tahonas in this region in the middle of the 18th century, as well as showing who owned them, what profits they obtained from their use, as well as comparing them with the hydraulic mills present in the region