Description:The Comb Mill was one of a complex of mill buildings on the River Wye at Ashford-in-the-Water known as Marble Mill. They were built in 1748 by Henry Watson and were working up to 1905. The Marble Mill used water power to saw and polish black marble, a locally mined limestone. At the Comb Mill tortoiseshell was worked. The mills were demolished when the A6 was widened in the 1930s.
Photographed by William Blake of Longton.