Crockleford mill, on Salary brook, was first recorded in 1588. It seems to have been part of Shaws farm, being held by Edmund Church before 1647 and by John Roberts in 1810 and 1811, and it may have been built by William Beriff, the Colchester cloth maker who acquired the farm in 1545, although it was not listed with the farm at his death in 1595. In 1657 it was rebuilt as a small bay-thickening or fulling mill. It was a fulling mill in 1777, and a bay mill in 1797, but it was leased as a flour mill in 1819 and converted into an oil mill in 1823. It was sold in 1837 as a chemical plant and water mill. The London Chemical Works later produced 'Mother Liquor' there. It was a corn mill again by 1877, and worked until c. 1955. <1><2>