Monument record MWX219 - Port Mill, Port Mead, Bridport

Site of former bolling mill on the River Brit. Later converted to a corn mill for crushing oats and beans for the brewery horses. Disused by 1902. Now ruined.

Site of former Port Mill, on the River Brit. This was a bolling mill later converted c. 1890 for crushing oats and beans for the horses in the nearby brewery by Job Legg, the owner of the brewery (1).

The site was labelled ‘Cottage Factory & Port Mead’, occupied by Robert Turner and owned by the Reverend Charles Fryer on the 1843 Symondsbury Tithe Map and apportionment (2).

It is marked as ‘Port Mill, Corn’ on the 1890 Ordnance Survey map (3). The 1902 Ordnance Survey map shows it as disused (4). The building was shown on the 1930 Ordnance Survey map but is not identified as a mill (5). By the 1980s, it was a ruin (1). In 1988 the channel was cleared and the remains of the wheel removed and the walls stabilised as part of the Flood Prevention Scheme (6).

<1> Bone, M R, 1985, 'The Bridport Flax and Hemp Industry' Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society Journal, 24 (Article in serial). SWX1452.

<2> Martin, J, 1843, Symondsbury Tithe Map, plots 966 & 967 (Map). SDO10530.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1890, Dorset Sheet XXXVIII.10 (Map). SDO10516.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1902, Dorset Sheet XXXVIII.10 (Map). SDO10517.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1930, Dorset Sheet XXXVIII.10 (Map). SDO10518.

<6> Sims, R, 1998, The Mills of Bridport (Monograph). SDO10535.

<7> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/063 South West Textile Mills Project (Unpublished document). SDO17323.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1305666 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 19 2022 4:46PM