Foots Cray Mill, Foots Cray

A water-powered paper mill and silk mill in the historic county of Kent, England.

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Footscray Silk Mill was established by a Frenchman, Benjamin Harenc, c 1775, and was later converted to the manufacture of paper. The building was a large weatherboarded structure straddling the river, with an overshot waterwheel. In the twentieth century it functioned as a laundry, and was demolished in 1929.

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References

• Alan Stoyel, Mills Archive Foundation Trustee
• Anthony Bryan, Mills Research Group Database
• Ordnance Survey six-inch map, Kent VIII (1870)

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