Dunster's corn mills

 Dunster was a market for corn and it is likely that the mills also served a wider area than the parish. In 1604 there was a dispute over diverting the millstream from the Whirlpool or Hurlypool near Avill, which supplied three grist mills and at least one tucking mill with two stocks. By the early 18th century the owners or occupiers of possibly eleven mills had to maintain the headweir, recorded in 1519, and many people were responsible for cleaning the leat. Regular rivalry over water led to litigation. Today the surviving watermill, in the care of the National Trust, produces traditional stone ground flour.