The authors describe the mills seen in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset and Devon - the legacy of the cloth industry, for which this area was well known from the Middle Ages onwards.
Marilyn Palmer and Peter Neaverson have worked together for more than twenty years, editing Industrial Archaeology Review as well as co-authoring books including the authoritative Industrial Archaeology: Principles and Practice. Marilyn Palmer is Professor of Industrial Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at Leicester, teaching buildings archaeology as well as industrial archaeology. Peter Neaverson was, until his recent death, an Honorary Research Fellow at Leicester.
