High Mill today has been converted into luxury housing as so many other dales industrial / farming buildings. The history of the mill goes back to the 14th century and probably earlier. It was first mentioned as a corn mill in 1315. The Vavasours in their land sale of 1619 sold the mill to John Greene, and in 1713 the Greenes to George Myers,

Whose family in turn sold it to RichardSmith.
Richard Smith following  John Cunliffe's lead added a Worsted Spinning mill using Arkwright Waterframes to the corn mill in 1787. This is the building of today. High Mill went onto become a fully integrated mill with the introduction of the Power Loom

High Mill Weir as it is Today

.In 1869 the mill became part of the Lister empire and started to spin and weave silk. In 1919 the water wheel was replaced by a turbine and Northrop automatic looms were installed. During WW1 Listers produced gun silks for use with cordite and in WW2 parachute silks. The mill finally closed in

1953. It then became a light engineering shop but was shut completely in the early 1970's. It fell into disrepair but was renovated into housing in the 1980's

The Caravan site by the Weir at High Mill