Landscape Photography at Flatford Mill (Hay Wain, Constable Country)

The Hay Wain (haywain) refers to the wooden wagon (wain) used for transporting cut and dried meadow grass (hay). The empty wagon is making its way through the shallow water to cross to the meadow on the other side where haymakers are at work.

The view is of the millpond at Flatford on the River Stour, which forms the border of two counties. The left bank is in Suffolk, and the landscape on the right bank is in Essex.

Flatford Mill was a watermill for grinding corn, operated by the Constable family for nearly a hundred years. It still survives and is about a mile from Constable’s birthplace at East Bergholt, Suffolk.
The house on the left also survives; in Constable’s time, it was occupied by tenant farmer Willy Lott.

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Landscape Photography at Flatford Mill - Hay Wain Constable Country

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