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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> A gazetteer of water-powered sites in south eas Somerset and north east Dorset The Yeo is a major tributary of the river Parrett flowing by Sherborne Yeovil and llchester. It has its own tributaries the Cam and the Wriggle and other rivers and streams. Nearly 90 water- powered sites have been identified within the Ye basin – some medieval in origin others established in later centuries. ‘Mills on the Yeo and the men who worked them’ provides an outline of these sites focusing on those that were active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author Martin Bodman has been researching industrial sites in the south west for over twenty years. He published ‘Devon Leather’ a gazetteer of oak bark tanneries in 2008. Inclined Planes in the South West’ followed; published by Twelveheads Press in 2012. (LL)