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Back Lane, SHEPTON MALLET, BA4 5HF

The buildings on the left are relatively modern constructions, whilst the building in the rear of the photograph is one of the original silk mill buildings. The silk mills have now been converted into flats and houses.

On the site of Darshill Middle Mill, a water-powered woollen mill, later functioning as a silk mill in the 19th century. The much latrger Higher and Lower Mills - factories- at Darshill have both gone: the Lower Mill was gutted by fire in the 19th century and Shepton's sewage works now utilises the site. The Higher Mill survived into the 20th century, but has since been replaced by more housing

About four miles from Wells.

The river Sheppey emerging from what was once a silk mill. The Darshill area, on the Wells road just to the west of Shepton Mallet, had many silk mills all powered by the river Sheppey.

The river Sheppey tumbling down man made steps on its way towards Darshill and the silk mills which once flourished there.

Not sure if this is an old mill converted to residential use or a genuine new build. The walls look modern but it could be cladding on an old surface. Suspect the former, there was a silk mill on this site. Seen from the A371.

After Shepton Mallet the A371 turns south to Castle Cary.

The A371 Shepton-Wells road runs beside the river Sheppey and was opened to traffic in 1851. Photo taken near the site of Upper Darshill Mill, now occupied by a housing block

A watermill, now converted and known as Silkmill Barn, is out of shot to the left. It was previously Middle Mill, Darshill. In this shot, to the right of Darshill House, by the Shepton-Wells road – constructed in 1851-1853 – is a ‘handle house’ with apertures in the brickwork, where teazles were dried. Teazles were used to raise the knap on woollen cloth, prior to shearing, in the days when Middle Mill was fulling cloth, prior to its conversion to a silk mill in the 19th century. The river Sheppey runs in the foreground