THE PACKBRIDGE crosses the Bybrook.
Looking at the gentle current today, it is difficult
to believe that the Bybrook once flowed with sufficient
force to provide power to numerous mills. Indeed there
is evidence of at least 20 mill sites down the Brook,
before it joins the Avon at Bathford. Colham Mill still stands,
just outside today's village. The stepping stone weir and sluice
in the grounds of the Manor hotel, are all that remain of what
was Castle Combe Mill.