My wife and I visited this old, water powered carding mill in mid-August of 2019. As we entered another couple left. This meant we were the only visitors in the small mill. To our surprise and delight we were given an almost one hour informative and enjoyable guided tour by a very knowledgeable guide. As we left another couple were just entering. What a shame to see so few people during the height of the tourist season and from what our guide told us this was not unusual. The mill itself was in continuous operation from 1860 intil 1968. All of the original machinery is still in the mill. The entire milling operation is explained in detail including prices per pound (to the customer) for various operation and an explanation as to why a 12 hour trip in the 1800's was a worthwhile investment to have one's wool carded. One of the interesting things about this mill was that customers were guaranteed that the raw wool that they brought in would be the carded wool they received back - not mixed with somebody else's which was usually the case. Take the time - an hour or so to be pleasantly surprised.

As we stayed in Bridgewater, we took the children for a visit to the “Wile Carding Mill Museum”. The mill is a bit on the outside of the city of Bridgewater. They speak about the mill already from the year 1860, and until the year 1968 this water-powered mill made the work from the farm families by carding a week´s work of wool in only one hour! The mill should have being open on the day of our visit as it is mentioned on their leaflet, but unfortunately we were there and standing before a closed mill, So we do have only outside pictures of it,