Bridgwater Town Mill

The work was undertaken by Richard Lowbridge, a Stourbridge ironmonger, and Daniel Dunnett, a carpenter, who was perhaps responsible for the construction of the machinery.

[5] At the beginning of the nineteenth century the High Cross was demolished, and the town did not have a proper water supply until the 1870s, when the Borough Council built the Ashford Waterworks.

The surviving nineteenth-century gearing indicates the millstones were on the upper floor, It was used during the nineteenth century as a corn mill and in 1858 converted to steam power[8] for which an extension was built housing the engine and boiler with its chimney.

They cleared the rubble from inside and refurbished the roof of the standing portion, so space could be used as storage for the museum's collection of artefacts recovered from archaeological excavations.

Later, a wooden floor was inserted over the cellar area of the main mill so ready access to the building could be had from the street.

The Bridgwater Town Council authorised a project in 2017 to restore the main mill to its original profile and also the wheel, and the designs and estimates are being prepared.