Westbury, Angel Mill [1]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 29 Apr 2021

Part of the apartments in the converted Angel Mill. Angel Mill was probably the earliest Wiltshire factory built to be driven by a steam engine. The oldest part of the mill is a four-storey red brick range of 10 bays built in 1801. An 8-bay range at right angles was built in 1856. The mill closed in 1969 and was converted into living accommodation. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1180662 Westbury is a former market town in the far west of Wiltshire under the north western edge of Salisbury Plain, 4 miles south of Trowbridge and 4 miles north of Warminster. Westbury was a centre of the cloth industry from the later 15th century until the 19th century. Malting was another important industry. There are now a number of large industrial and trading estates around the town with many residents working there. The town is an important junction point on the railway network with the Reading to Taunton line intersecting the line from Bristol to Southampton.

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