For centuries Bradford-on-Avon prospered on cloth-making. In the Middle Ages weavers worked in their own homes. The cloth they produced was fulled in mills along the river. But with the Industrial Revolution factories sprang up to house mechanical looms. This imposing mill was built in 1875. When the cloth industry petered out in the district, many mills were demolished. This building survived by being put to other uses. It has now been converted into retirement flats.
