Guests are guided through the old distillery, where they can admire the old kilns, mills, maltings, water wheel, still house, distillers cottage, cooperage and warehouses.
en.wikipedia.org Water was no longer an economical source of power and many mills were abandoned.
en.wikipedia.org The village became a stopover for rail travelers, and a thriving center for the bountiful farms and mills which serviced the growing population.
en.wikipedia.org Formerly, the factories included glassworks, foundries, ironworks, machine shops, and planing, flour, feed, and silk mills.
en.wikipedia.org Paper mills, known locally as the treacle mines, also developed near the river.
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