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Bradford on Avon Wool Shops
Bradford on Avon has 7 wool shops and is a town in West Wiltshire. The town has a canal, lots of shops and pubs, historic buildings and restaurants making it popular with tourists. The town can be traced back to Roman origins and it has several buildings dating to the 17th century when the town had a thriving woollen textile industry.
It is 8 miles south-east of Bath between the Mendip Hills, Salisbury Plain and the Cotswold Hills. The River Avon runs through the town, which provided the power for the wool mills that gave the town its wealth. The 17th-century buildings in Bradford on Avon date from the most successful period of the local textile industry. The wool weaving industry moved from the cottages to purpose-built mills next to the River and around 30 such mills were built until the woollen industry shifted it centre of power to Yorkshire. The last mill closed in 1905
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