Description

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OKEHAMPTON MILL ROAD
SX 59 SE
3/26
Chimney about 50 metres
west north west of Town
Mill
GV II

Chimney stack at manure and vitriol works. Circa mid Cl9. Stone rubble with some
granite quoins. Tall chimney about 2.3 metres square at base and tapering towards
top. It is attached at the base on its south side to another building not
included in the listing.

Town Mill qv to the east is said to be mentioned in the Domesday Book and by the
mid C17 there were two mills (a wheat and a rye mill) side by side. In C19 the
mill was taken over by William Wood who reconstructed and enlarged it, setting up
a fertiliser business, bone crushing plant and a condenser for the production of
sulphuric acid. The acid was pumped through a pipe under Simmons Park to the
station but that was abandoned after the pipe broke and caused smells in the town.

Listing NGR: SX5899494985

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399789

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)