About Gages Mill

Gages Mill is on the southern edge of Dartmoor, just a few minutes walk from the fantastic town of Ashburton.

Gages Mill is a perfect base from which to explore many areas of the South West Coast and Dartmoor. If you have a love of the sea then places such as Dartmouth and Salcombe easily spring to mind or explore Dartmoor where you can walk, ride, fish and visit historic towns such as Tavistock and Widecombe in the Moor and a wide variety of spectacular landmarks.

There are great pubs in Ashburton and locally on Dartmoor where good food can be enjoyed in a true country pub setting.

Gages Mills' history dates back to the 14th Century when it was a Wool Mill. The earliest formal mention of 'Gagys Myll' is found in the ministers accounts of King Henry VII in 1504.

In its early life Gages Mill was the manorial Fulling Mill where cloth, having been woven, was cleansed of its grease using Fullers earth. In the latter years of its operational life Gages Mill was a Flock Mill making mattresses from waste wool.

In the mid 1950's the Tope family lived in Gages Mill and ran a small factory making special pens for plotting equipment know as, 'Gages Instruments'.

Gages Mill was converted to a guest house in 1972.