K.H. Rogers, in Wiltshire And Somerset Woollen Mills, published by the Pasold Research Fund Ltd., in 1976, noted:
South Newton
In 1814 two pairs of fulling stocks on a good stream at South Newton were advertised to let. They no doubt stood in the corn mill, as is suggested by an earlier reference (1720) to a miller and fuller in the village.
Wilts. Record Society, xvii, 21;
SJ, 15.8.1814.