K.H. Rogers, in Wiltshire And Somerset Woollen Mills, published by the Pasold Research Fund Ltd., in 1976, noted:
Chapmanslade
In 1814 Thomas Vine, who had been one of a partnership running Corsley Mill, added two lives to a lease of a house in Chapmanslade. He built a factory adjoining it and ran it until 1830, when the machinery of Vine and Son was put up for sale; it included five scribbling and three carding machines, billies, jennies, tucking and willying mills, presses, a patent cutter and brusher and steaming apparatus. By 1836, when a new lease was made, the house was partly used as a beerhouse called the Nag’s Head; and materials of the factory and engine house were sold by 1837. A reservoir has been made on the site, and the machinery had no doubt been driven by steam since 1814.
WRO, 845, lease books;
DG, 18.3.1830, 13.7.1837.