490 yards. Park Lane leads straight to Heytesbury Mill. On left you will see first this building known as Everett's Yard until recently renamed after upgrading. It is marked in a map of 1832 as a Factory.This wan not a manufactory where things were made but a factory in the older sense of a warehouse. It most likely stored textile work produced by home workers. The Everett family prospered by providing generations of stewards for the Heytesbury estate. They became successful textile manufacturers and ascended into the ranks of the landed gentry. They over reached themselves by paying for a very expensive new church with a spire built between 1866 and 1868
by a very expensive architect, John Loughborough Pearson, in the neighbouring Sutton Veny.
On the right of the lane is a winter bourne usually dry even in winter. In February 2014 it lived up to its name.living up to its name.
Above nineteenth century cottages with cob walls that is to say made of mud and straw.
The house above was recently made by converting a one storey farm building.
Above Mill Farm, a farm until recently. It was a woolen mill in the 19th century then a corn mill. After this corner turn left along the track at the end of the cottages on the left
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