Bird Henge Trail Stage No 3 Upton Lovell textile mill

 290 yards . Return towards village  and at crossroads turn left down lane towards the river.Approaching  the bridge  on the left in the vegetation is some discarded masonry. There is more masonry  below the bridge on the north bank and you will see that these bits fitted originally  into the base of  the bridge. The bridge is standing on remains of  Upon Lovell Mill. In the 19th century this  was an industrial village  In 1816 John Everett bought the mill and later demolished it and built a steam driven textile factory on the site In 1833 it employed an estimated 400 people in the area In 1846 Everett ceased trading and the factory was used for various purposes including beaver cloth for uniforms and leather cloth for cars  A fire gutted it in 1898 - see below. The table below shows the number of employees in 1861 and their ages from  nearby villages,.some very young.some very old.