Pinsley Bridge

This now removed bridge over Pinsley Brook stood near the Fulling Mill. Fulling mills cleansed cloth, here it was wool. The bridge carried The Priory over the brook.

Pinsley Brook ran under the road here till mid 20^th century. Galliers map (1825) shows Pinsley Brook running under the southernmost of the brick houses and emerging to run east through gardens towards the Infirmary building. We think this was the site of a fulling mill.

There is a 1675 record of a ‘Tucke’ (fulling) mill beside the Priory corn mills which were probably slightly upstream, near the monastery’s domestic buildings.