1 A mill, probably this site, is recorded in 1086. Later it became the property of Coombe Abbey. Information on ownership exists for the 16th to 20th centuries. The mill ...
Blackdown Mill, a watermill for which there are documentary records from the Medieval period. It was in use until the 1920s and the waterwheel and some of the machinery survive. It is on the south side of Hill Wootton Road.
I could find no sign of a mill at Blackdown in the Domesday book, though it may be quite ancient. Bertie Greatheed writes in his diary for August 12th 1807: ...