Stokes mill, on the Colne at the end of Land Lane, may have been the mill belonging to St Peter's Church in 1066 and 1086. By c.1255 it belonged to St John's abbey which leased it to Nicholas son of Geoffrey Spenser for 10s a year. In 1248-9 Gillian widow of Walter Baker confirmed it to the abbey. In 1422-3 it was a fulling mill, although the stocks were so badly repaired that they tore cloth. At the Dissolution the mill, still a fulling mill, passed to the crown. It was leased as a fulling mill in 1560 and in 1569 was owned by John Maynard, who also held East Mill. It had been demolished by 1610.<1>