Hi Flemming following is an extract from the Radfords book on South Tawton page 77.
On theist now occupied by the Nat Trust Finch Foundry Museum,the two manor mills formerly provided employment in Sticklepath.Their wheels were powered by water from the leat after it left Cleave MILL to run behind the houses and through Hayes and Mill meadows to the next places of production .Operated by John Bowring and JOHN STANBURY respectively, the manor mills were already well established in the early 19cenury,one as a corn mill, the other a cloth mill.It was the latter that William Finch took over in 1814 as Stanbury's tenant.
