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were produced here in vast quantities. After the Gasper dam burst upriver in the summer of 1917, much of the machinery was washed from the factory and it took a number of years for industry to restart on the site. When it did return in 1933 the factory entered its final phase as a
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which passes through the historic Bourton Mill, once home to the second largest water wheel in Britain (60 feet (18 m) in diameter) .
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processing plant and this continued up until its closure in 1998. It has now been demolished to make way for the Mill Lake development.
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which once fell into the River Stour, but was rescued and re-erected. In 878 it formed the rallying point for
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meet beside the lake at the rear of Bourton Mill is marked by
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The point at which the counties of Dorset, Somerset and
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at Chaffeymoor, is a large 17th-century house. It is a
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called Bourton and District. The District extends to
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Bourton is located in Dorset
Dorset
OS grid reference
ST7630
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Dorset
Shire county
Dorset
Region
South West
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
SP8
Dialling code

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