This was another powerful mill, rebuilt in about 1790 on an ancient site. It had two internal waterwheels driving eight pairs of stones. About a hundred years later it was bought by William Hooker, and remodelled as a roller mill, with one of the wheels being replaced by a turbine. He re-named it Westgate Mill, but sometimes the mill is referred to as Shafford’s Mill or Hooker’s Mill in recognition of different periods of ownership. The mill was largely built of timber and it, too was burnt to the ground in June 1954. The site was cleared, and used as a car park for many years, but now a new residential block has been erected where the mill once stood.

INFORMATION SOURCE: Alan Stoyel 2007