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Ebley Mill, Stroud

            Now Stroud's Council Offices, the mill created great wealth in the 1860's for Samuel Marling. He used his wealth to commission G H Bodley to design this building, and All Saints Church in Selsey. The church overlooks the mill from the hill to the South.

In 1840, Samuel Stephens Marling and his brother Thomas bought the mill. Although this partnership was short-lived, Samuel worked with several others, J G Strachan and Samuel’s son William Henry being the most important.

From the start he invested heavily in the mill:

He added a new block on the north end and when it was burned down in 1859 he commissioned G H Bodley to replace it.
He added the weaving shed and other buildings.
He increased the power by adding an extra water wheel and introducing steam-power.

1In 1851, at the Great Exhibition, the firm won the gold medal for black superfine cloths, enabling Marling to transform the mill’s fortunes by riding the wave of fashion for black cloth. He bought Stanley Mill and became the largest cloth manufacturer in Gloucestershire, perhaps in the South West.

As a result, he reaped tremendous profits: for seven years in the 1860s, over a million pounds a year in modern terms. The value of stock increased from £80,000 in 1842 to £210,000 in 1872 when he included Stanley Mill. One of his partners said he had been round the world three times on Marling & Co business, establishing the reputation of West of England cloth for quality materials world-wide.

By the 1860s, he employed 800 people at Ebley Mill and 500 at Stanley.

Taken in: UK / England / Stroud / Dudbridge (show map)

Taken on: July 1, 2023

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