Dunkirk Mill, Freshford
in Freshford, near Bath
This was a woollen mill established by Thomas Joyce and John Moggridge, in use by 1795.
By 1810 Joyce was in partnership with Edward Cooper.
1810 Purchased a 14 HP engine from Boulton and Watt to supplement the 32 ft waterwheel.
1815 Mill advertised for sale, without the steam engine, which had been sold. It was bought by W. H. Jones, who purchased a 32 HP engine from Boulton and Watt.
1820 Lease offered for sale.
1828 Advertised for sale again.
1833 Owned by Thomas Spackman Jr, who was censured in that year for imposing working hours of 5 a.m. to 8 p.m.
1853 - 1856 Mill offered for sale.
Subsequent activity unclear, but its connection with the woollen industry appears to have ended in 1912.
Most of the above information is condensed from 'Wiltshire & Somerset Woollen Mills' by Kenneth Rogers[1] provides information about the mill's history and its machinery.
Information from other sources
1813 Sale Notice: 'To CLOTHIERS. be DISPOSED of by Private Contract, all the Scribbling and Carding Machines, Billies and Jennies, most of which are nearly new, .... lately used by JOYCE, COOPERS and Co, who have removed their business to Staverton Factory. Likewise to be disposed of the Factory in their late occupation, situate in FRESHFORD, near Bradford, with a capital Steam Engine, by Bolton and Watt, of 14-horse power; four pair of Stocks, two Giggs, five Cloth Racks, two Dye and one Scouring Furnace, with sundry other articles used in the manufacture of superfine cloth. Apply (if by letter, post-paid) to Joyce, Coopers, and Co. Slateford Factory, Bradford, Wilts.
N.B. The Steam-Engine during the summer has regularly driven 4 pair of stocks, 2 giggs, 13 scribbling and carding machines, 1 wool tucker and 22 shearing frames; in the winter it is considerably assisted by a stream of water working a wheel of 32-feet diameter.'[2]
The mill and associated house are Grade II listed. Historic England listing here.