Wookey Hole Victorian Paper Mill - Reviews from across the web
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Wookey Hole Victorian Paper Mill, Bath - IgoUgo Reviews There has been a mill here since time immemorial - the earliest record is in the Doomsday Book for a mill that ground corn. By 1610 the mill was employed making paper. Nowadays it still makes paper using original Victorian machinery, the Valman and the Coucher make hand-made papers in the old-fashio... igougo.com
Wookey Hole Caves - History, Mystery & Fun - Historic Paper Mill By 105 AD the Chinese had invented true paper, a thin felted material formed on flat, porous moulds from macerated vegetable fibre. For the next 500 years the Chinese were able to retain a monopoly on papermaking, but then the skill spread westwards, and the earliest existing European manuscript on ... wookey.co.uk
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