K.H. Rogers, in Wiltshire And Somerset Woollen Mills, published by the Pasold Research Fund Ltd., in 1976, noted:
Crockerton: Job’s Mill
This mill was part of the manor of Little Sutton in Sutton Veny, and in the eighteenth century formed part of the Longleat estate.
It takes its name from father and son, both called Job Lewis, who occupied it as a corn mill for much of the eighteenth century.
In 1786, the lease was renewed to John Phipps, a miller from Chilmark, who three years later assigned it to John Everett of Heytesbury.
When a new life was added to the lease by John Gale Everett, clothier, in the same year, permission was given to convert it to a fulling mill providing the value was not lessened.
The mill was part of a considerable amount of Longleat property which was exchanged to J.D. Astley in 1809.
It is not known how long it remained a fulling mill (if indeed it ever became one); it was certainly occupied by a miller in 1831.
WRO, 845, lease books, estate papers, etc.;
WRO, 949, copy of 1831 census.