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Totnes Town Mill
Totnes Trust are the current custodians of the ancient Totnes Town Mill, responsible for its preservation, care and use. Today it is used to provide a physical location to support local entrepreneurial community initiatives. The main building houses the Jamming Station and the Image Bank, while the outside garden provides a pop-up venue for Pizza Pirates. All of these organisations turn the Town Mill into a thriving, vibrant part of the Totnes community
History of the Town Mill
The Totnes Town Mill building on Coronation Road probably dates from the 16th century, although it has been altered and enlarged since then. It is likely that there have been mills in Totnes for over 800 years and at one time a significant milling complex could be found on the site, with corn and fulling mills which produced cloth from sheep’s wool, all playing an important part in the development and prosperity of the town.
It is believed that the Town Mill was powered mainly by the tidal waters of the river Dart and likely to have been supplemented by fresh water taken off the river at a weir further upstream. Today after much restoration one remaining waterwheel can be seen and inside the restored mechanism which drove the Mill stone