Frigg's Mill, Stroud
From Graces Guide
of Lightpill, Rodborough near Stroud
1633 Frigg's Mill is recorded to have included fulling mills and a grist mill.
1783 It was being worked as a cloth mill
1812 The mill was said to consist of a grist mill and a newly-erected cloth mill.
By 1820, James Hillman was employing it as a corn mill, and it remained a corn mill under Samuel Sims (1856) and his sons.
1847 Bankrupt. George Roberts, Frigg's Mill, Gloucestershire, Miller.[1][2]
1877 'the late Mr James Hillman, of Frigg's Mill, Lightpill, Rodborough'[3]
Before 1889 steam power was applied in the mill.
Soon after succeeded by Kimmins, Drew and Co. who worked the mill until about 1908.
1914 The mill building burnt down. The 17th century mill-house has since been restored
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Atlas - Saturday 17 July 1847
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:15 October 1847 Issue:20782 Page:3647
- ↑ Stroud Journal - Saturday 25 August 1877
- [1] Digital Stroud