Dulverton mill leat and mills

The Dulverton mill leat starts at the weir in Lady Street where it leaves the river Barle to flow south through the western side of the town before rejoining the river south of Dulverton bridge.

Dulverton's growthin size and wealth in the 15th and early 16th centuries has parallels in villages like Pensford in eat Somerset that became cloth towns in this period. Despite claims that Dulverton was 'in great ruin and decay' in the 1550s, it was certainly flourshing by the 1590s, when overall market profits (including produce from the mill) had risen from £19 to £23.