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Water-powered bark mill, used by Vicary's tannery. Oak bark would be ground here to a powder to provide - when mixed with water - tannic acid, for use in make leather from hides. Water came in a long leat from Bradley Woods, also powering Higher Bradley Mill, the tannery and the Town or Sherborne Mills '