Saltford Brass Mill 2025

Situated on the banks of the River Avon in the village of Saltford, the Brass Mill is the only surviving building, still with a furnace and working waterwheel, remaining from a group of 18th century mills making copper and brass goods in the Avon Valley between Bristol and Bath.

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Address: The Shallows Saltford Somerset BS31 3EY

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Open Days & Times

2nd & 4th Sat May-Oct 1000-1600. Also some other days. Visit website for more details.

Travel

By Bus: 39, X39
By Rail: Keynsham / 1.5 miles

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The mill was one of a series of mills working in brass in the Avon Valley during the eighteenth century. Many of these mills, as at Saltford, employed waterwheels to power processes used by the company. Abraham Darby started making brass at Baptist Mills on the Frome in Bristol (near the start of the M32) in 1702.

Brassmaking was much later transferred to Keynsham's Avon Mill, because of its better water supply. River transport was used to deliver brass ingots and coal up to Saltford; Weston Mill, Bath and other mills of the company.