North Tawton Woollen Mill Walkthrough

Walkthrough video of our visit to the North Tawton Woollen Mill, which dates back to 1750 and was established by John Fulford from Crediton, the Fulfords ran the business until 1842.
The Present mill was built in 1845 by Gilbert Vicary and later sold to a Halifax firm. It Closed down in 1930 when it was the last woollen mill operating in North Devon.
The 1888 Ordnance survey map shows a large amount of new development and the map of 1905 shows additional extensions. Since the closure of the mill the buildings have been used for the storage of wool until recently.
The building behind the Listed mill, which according to map evidence must have been built between 1888 and 1905, may be worthy of Listing as it appears to be a fairly unusual structure and new mill which appears to have been re-faced in locally made concrete blocks and render disguised to appear like concrete blocks sometime in the 20th century. There has been a building of approximately the same size as the existing building on the site since before 1846 and although there appears to be no evidence that this structure dates from that period, there may be the remnants of some of the earlier structure contained within the walls.

[@daciatravel.647]

Very nice video!

[@kernow..exp.]

What music is that at the start of the video mate

[@fredflintstone1024]

Hi matey, Yep the track is called 'Mystery Train - By David O Brien and its copyright but the owner allows it to be used on UA-cam

[@kernow..exp.]

​​@@fredflintstone1024 yeah I've heard it on another UA-cam channel yeah I've heard it a few times now I'm not sure it's copyright

[@fredflintstone1024]

@@kernow..exp. they use it a lot on some documentaries too, so it’s around but you usually only hear about 30 seconds of it :)