[3] Mells River also powered the Old Ironstone Works[4] and several other mills set up by James Fussell III in 1744.

[5] It is now a 0.25 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, as it is used by both Greater and Lesser Horseshoe Bats.

[6][7] Vobster Inn Bridge, which carries the lane over the Mells River, is dated 1764 and is Grade II listed.

[8] At Great Elm the Murtry Aqueduct,[9] built around 1795, carried the Dorset and Somerset Canal over the river.

Archaeological investigations found the remains of woolly rhinoceros bones and a 1st-century bronze brooch.