Hele, Devon Explained

Coordinates:50.813°N -3.43°W
Static Image Name:Devon_Valley_Mill_at_Hele_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1734798.jpg
Static Image Caption:The old mill at Hele
Country:England
Official Name:Hele
Civil Parish:Bradninch
Shire County:Devon
Region:South West England
Os Grid Reference:SS9902
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Hele is a village in Devon, England, lying about 1miles SSW of Bradninch and NNE of Exeter, on the River Culm.

The village is home to a paper mill once belonging to the company Wiggins Teape, now part of the multinational company Purico Group. The Devon Valley Mill produces sausage casing paper and teabag paper under the "Crompton Paper" brand name.[1]

The mill site was originally that of a grist mill which was converted to a paper mill in 1762. It was here that John Dewdney produced the first glazed writing paper in England in the 1840s. He was also famously called upon to supply the paper for the catalogues of the Great Exhibition in 1851.[2]

The nearby railway station, now closed, used to serve Hele and Bradninch.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Devon Valley Mill . 4 October 2012.
  2. Web site: Historic Bradninch . 2 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130126105055/http://www.devon.gov.uk/historicbraninch . 26 January 2013 .