Powick Mill was built in 1894, and the first hydroelectric power station built in Britain. Now converted into residential units.
Battle of Powick Bridge, fought on 23 September 1642, was the first major cavalry engagement of the First English Civil War. It was a Royalist victory, and the bridge and area was also the location of the last skirmish in September 1651.
Approaching the bridge you com across an inscribed stone that says
IN MEMORY OF THE THOUSANDS OF SCOTS, HIGHLAND AND LOWLAND,/ WHO FOUGHT HERE FAR FROM HOME, SO WELL AND SO BRAVELY,/ AGAINST INSUPERABLE ODDS AND GAVE THEIR LIVES IN DEVOTED LOYALTY,/ TO EACH OTHER AND TO THEIR LEADERS./ BATTLE OF WORCESTER/ 3 - 9 - 1651
The Stuarts were monarchs of both England and Scotland but the English had not consulted the Scots during Charles’s trial and execution.
Therefore supported Charles II. But it was here that the Royalists were defeated on 3 September 1651 by Oliver Cromwell in the final battle of the Civil War.